Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:36:06 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911231727230.15349-100000@jazz.monsterbymistake.com> In-Reply-To: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>
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On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, James A Wilde wrote: |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? | |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 | 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 used to only be able to use 'jot' under IRIX ... it's much more productive to know a good editor though. If vi(m) really scares you then try `pico`. use "0" to goto the beginning of a line and "I" to insert at the beginning and "A" to append to the end of the line. http://www.vim.org good luck, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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