Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:10:49 +0100 From: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> References: <38375433.193946BF@sasknow.com>
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Related question from a greenhorn.
Most of my editing is administrative editing of configuration files and the like. For that vi is a pita with all that programmers crap. The only functionality I use is x for delete, i for input, Alt $ for goto eol (I don't know how you get to the beginning) and d with the down arrow to remove two lines, which means that I often have to insert a line first in order to delete the one line I need to remove.
Is there for UNIX something with the lack of complexity of the DOS edit program? Simple marking, cutting, pasting is all I really need.
Thanks for any tips.
mvh/regards
James Wilde
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Thompson [FreeBSD] <freebsd@sasknow.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 03:08
Subject: Programmers' editor?
> Hi all;
>
> As many of us here are programmers, and do so in FreeBSD, I reasoned
> that this would be great place to find out what console text editors
> people use. Before this thread even gets going, though, let's remember
> not to start a flamewar, and move relevant parts to -chat :-)
>
> I currently use lpe (I downloaded/compiled, but there's a slightly dated
> version available in ports, last time I checked). I do a great deal of
> development in Perl and Java, with copious amounts of C(++) and HTML
> thrown in. lpe handles the syntax highlighting for all of these (and
> the colours aren't that bad, either :-) The only things I find (more
> than slightly) annoying about lpe is its lack of auto-indent, and lack
> of configuration options (most, if not all persistent configuration
> options must be compiled in). Not-so-slightly annoying is its lack of
> automatic indents (i.e. tab width indent after a curly { brace).
> Admittedly, lpe isn't built for power, but it turns out to be a good
> all-around editor.
>
> If I had a large programming project sprawled over many source files,
> admittedly, I'd move over to something more like emacs... But, for the
> day to day edits and smaller projects, lpe is about the best I've found,
> and walks with a very small footprint.
>
> Feel free to 'disagree' with me; I'd like to see what others are using.
>
> --
>
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