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> dte...@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:25 PM
> To: Robin, Michael; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: text editor
>
>
On getting vim text editor ("vi improved") for FreeBSD, you can either pkg_add
or use the ports system, where you build from source code with a convenient
setup. You can check http://www.freebsd.org/ and check the documentation,
including the handbook and ports system.
I've heard of Cygwin but
> -Original Message-
> From: Robin, Michael [mailto:ro...@chapman.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:42 PM
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> Subject: RE: text editor
>
> What is VIM?
A _much_ improved version of "vi&quo
On 28 Aug 2012 at 22:41, Robin, Michael wrote:
> What is VIM? Where could it be downloaded?
> What is CLI? I am looking for GUI/command prompt text editor for Windows 7/8.
> The notepad plus program lacks start/end block setting option even
> though it have a lot of hot keys. My top priority is
gust 28, 2012 3:25 PM
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> Subject: RE: text editor
>
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> > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robin, Michael
> > Se
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:41:52 +, Robin, Michael wrote:
> What is VIM?
VI = VI Improved, based on vi-like editor behaviour, which
is often considered one of the MAIN editor environments
among programmers.
> Where could it be downloaded?
You don't manually download things on FreeBSD. You ins
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:09:39 +, Robin, Michael wrote:
> Which text editor program will run 64-bit operating system with
> following features:
> * Support 100 percent of hot keys
Depends also on the terminal emulator used and if it's
configured properly. Editors like the one belonging to
the Mi
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> Which text editor program will run 64-bit o
On 2010.06.03 18:35, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Walt Pawley wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
>>
>>> Been using ee and been happy.
>>>
>>> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
>>
>> I'd suggest looking into aee.
>
>
> That has what I am looking and so simple.
Simple is in the eye of
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > > If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by
> > > pulling it out of the signature block w
On 2010.06.03 20:40, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems.
>
> I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing,
> it has a friendlier license (since w
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by
> > pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged.
>
> Nicely put Chad.
Thanks!
>
> ...here's an ex
On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote:
>> To Matthias Apitz
[ ...snip ...]
>> Yours sincerely
>> Richard Farnes
>
> I don't recall any "netiquette" rules about making your signature block
> on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:14:19AM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I don't know much, but the source tarball is slightly
> over 7m.
I suspect a lot of that is documentation. One thing Vim definitely has
going for it is the breadth and depth of user documentation that comes
with it.
>
> In
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote:
> To Matthias Apitz
> I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor
> usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly
> happy with vi.
> BUT I noticed your political comment a
Walt Pawley wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
Been using ee and been happy.
Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
I'd suggest looking into aee.
That has what I am looking and so simple.
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To Matthias Apitz
I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor
usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly
happy with vi.
BUT I noticed your political comment at the end of your contribution. I find
this out of place as this questions si
On Jun 03 2010 11:11, Murray Taylor wrote:
> Hmm i remember a 'game' where you opened a file
> then predicted what would happen if you just typed
> your name at the command prompt... then of course you had to do it
> to see if your guess was right...
>
> ie in vi
>
> "dwight" would delete a word
On 31 May 2010 17:38, Chad Perrin wrote:
> I meant to reply to the list, as a response to this, but accidentally
> replied directly to Giorgos Keramidas.
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:45:07PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> > Does Vim
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 12:04:06AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>
> > Robert> Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
> > I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs,
> > wanting to do the same thing.
>
> Didn't
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
> Robert> Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
> I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs,
> wanting to do the same thing.
Didn't Emacs start out as a reimplementation of TECO in Lisp?
_
> "Chad" == Chad Perrin writes:
>> I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs, wanting to
>> do the same thing.
Chad> How did that work out -- and what happened to it?
It was used by my group at Tektronix from 1981 to 1983... not sure what
happened to it after that.
--
Ran
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:41:37PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Robert" == Robert Bonomi writes:
>
> Robert> Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
>
> I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs, wanting to
> do the same thing.
How did that work out --
> "Robert" == Robert Bonomi writes:
Robert> Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
I wrote a screen-based editor in it, having heard of Emacs, wanting to
do the same thing.
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[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Levine
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:31 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com
Subject:
>Anybody else familiar with TECO? <*EVIL* grin>
Oh, you mean that editor I used on a PDP-6? Sigh. Yes.
R's,
John
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On Jun 02 2010 11:45, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > > > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K.
> > >
> > > I remember when . . .
> > >
> > > I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucke
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 2 02:11:23 2010
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:06:31 -0700
> From: per...@pluto.rain.com
> To: m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: text editor
>
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Jun 2 01:20:03 2010
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 01:20:07 -0500
> From: Adam Vande More
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: text editor
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Ju
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:33:44PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> The ed(1) is *extremely* useful when it comes to editing text files on
> the fly in shell scripts (i.e. without user interaction).
This is why I don't consider ed the kind of abomination that edlin was;
it exists within a stronge
El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 01:26:44PM +0200, Ruben de Groot escribió:
> > The phrase "son of an edlin" has happily been retired in my vocabulary for
> > some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of
> > causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:20:07AM -0500, Adam Vande More typed:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K.
> >
> > I remember when . . .
> >
> > I
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Young whippersnappers. *Eight* was the good old days,
> back before the web was invented.
Dept of (in)famous last words:
There is no reason for anyone to have a computer in their home.
-- Gordon Bell, founder of DEC
No one will ever need more than 640K.
-- Bill
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K.
>
> I remember when . . .
>
> I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked*.
>
> . . .
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K.
I remember when . . .
I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked*.
. . . not counting this nifty editor I called "pencil".
--
Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 05:23:55PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:08:42 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:21:20PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:32:04 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Unfortunately, the "killer feature"
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
>
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
I'd suggest looking into aee.
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541-672-8975
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I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K.
On Jun 01 2010 07:09, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:49:56AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > Young whippersnappers. *Eight* was the good old days, back before the
> > web was invented.
>
> No -- those are th
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 07:08:42 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:21:20PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:32:04 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately, the "killer feature" that keeps me with Vim instead of nvi
> > > is its support for multiple le
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:49:56AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> Young whippersnappers. *Eight* was the good old days, back before the
> web was invented.
No -- those are the "even better old days".
--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
pgpsisp2Mnyyg.pg
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:21:20PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:32:04 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, the "killer feature" that keeps me with Vim instead of nvi
> > is its support for multiple levels of undo.
>
> Have you ever tried "u" (undo command) follo
On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:32:04 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote:
> Unfortunately, the "killer feature" that keeps me with Vim instead of nvi
> is its support for multiple levels of undo.
Have you ever tried "u" (undo command) followed by "." (repeat
last command)? ;-)
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On 31/05/2010 21:31:15, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:48:22PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi
>> wrote:
>>> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Vim is much smaller than Emacs but
reebsd.org
Subject: Re: text editor
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi
wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>>
>> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 ro
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
SNIP alot of text not related to original posted question.
Can we get back on subject.
I have worked many years with ispf so decided to check out "THE"
I installed pkg_add -r the
entering "the" on the command line produces something that is far removed
from i
SNIP alot of text not related to original posted question.
Can we get back on subject.
I have worked many years with ispf so decided to check out "THE"
I installed pkg_add -r the
entering "the" on the command line produces something that is far
removed from ispf/pdf. manpage and website docume
I meant to reply to the list, as a response to this, but accidentally
replied directly to Giorgos Keramidas.
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:45:07PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Does Vim install more than the binary? I've got this:
> >
>
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:36:53AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>
> I can't get at my FBSD box right now to check vim itself, but on another box,
> 'nvi' (which is described as a "bug-for-bug compatible replacement for the
> original Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD) vi", has an executa
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:48:22PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi
> wrote:
> >Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
> >>
> >> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
> >>
On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:36:53 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi
wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>>
>> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 =CE=91=CF=80=CF=81 17:11
>> vim-lite-7
On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:59:00 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> Vim is much smaller than Emacs but it still a few MB's here:
>>
>> keram...@kobe:/usr/ports/packages/All$ ls -ld vim*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 5757731 1 Απρ 17:11 vim-lite-7.2.344.tbz
>
> Does Vim install more than the binary?
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon May 31 00:10:28 2010
> From: Giorgos Keramidas
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:10:03 +0300
> Subject: Re: text editor
>
> On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Sun,
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:10:03AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and
> >> GNU Emacs have support for
yep ... its called vi
place cursor at the line at hte top (or bottom) of the block
press ma
(put marker a on the line)
move your cursor to the line at the other end (bottom ot top)
of the block
press d'a
this will delete between the marked line and the cursor
to move the block d
On Sun, 30 May 2010 17:28:27 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and
>> GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks.
>
> I'm not sure why you mentioned the siz
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:31:59PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> If you don't mind the size of the respective packages, both VIM and
> GNU Emacs have support for many features that ee(1) lacks.
I'm not sure why you mentioned the size of Vim here as if it's a
remarkably large piece of softwa
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote:
Been using ee and been happy.
Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
I recommend joe which is one binary with several flavors including
pico, emacs, and wordstar work-alikes as well as its own interface.
The macro language is easy and powerful.
-
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
>
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
>
> Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting
> and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of
> lines are delet
Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
Been using ee and been happy.
Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd
on the
last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
>
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
> Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd
> on the
> last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines are delet
Fbsd1 wrote:
> Been using ee and been happy.
> Now I have need for an editor with block commands.
...
> Is there any editors with a function like this?
Either vi or emacs can do this general sort of thing.
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