Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:26:19 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991123232619.50150@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911231727230.15349-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>; from Agent Drek on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:36:06PM -0500 References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911231727230.15349-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com>
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On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 17:36:06 -0500, Agent Drek wrote: > > I suggest that you really try and learn vim (vi if you must..) much > more rewarding in the end. There's also xemacs' but I could never > get used to having my editor open all the time. There are good > tutorials for both. I'm not going to try to put vi down, but you've got to admit that most newbies find it less than intuitive. Emacs has changed a lot since people got fed up with its idiosyncracies; it now has mouse and cursor key support, and is thus much closer to the editors in the Microsoft world. And nowadays you don't *have* to have your Emacs open all the time. For example, I'm writing this in an Emacs window which I opened (from mutt) specially for that purpose. On the other hand, you'll find it convenient to have an editor window open somewhere once you realise that you can comfortably edit 200 files at the same time. It's like a notepad reminding you of what you're doing. > I used to only be able to use 'jot' under IRIX ... it's much more > productive to know a good editor though. Agreed. That's why I don't recommend jot, pico, ee or friends. They all do the job, but it's easy to run into their limitations, and relearning any system component as central as an editor is a Real Pain. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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