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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.gun.de!news2.gtn.com!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!msoenix.du.gtn.com!macsoenix.du.gtn.com!user From: boss@msoenix.du.gtn.com (Michael Soentgerath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: vi is a drag! Is there something else? Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 15:29:23 +0200 Organization: FANATIC FreeBSD and PowerMAC-Site Lines: 27 Message-ID: <boss-1106951529230001@macsoenix.du.gtn.com> References: <3r8jui$mv7@news1.best.com> <3rafvg$28j@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: macsoenix.du.gtn.com In article <3rafvg$28j@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, yzalkow@fox.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow) wrote: > Etienne Finet (efinet@insist.com) wrote: > : Who knows a better editor for unix. > : Is pico available? > > : Many thanks, Etienne > > If you're a PC type person, and like the WordStar keys, (the control-K ones,) > then you should try JOE. It's in the ported software for FreeBSD, I'm running > it under FreeBSD 2.0R. (I think its in the ported software, either that or > it doesn't need much to compile it for FreeBSD.) > > There's also Crisp, (a Brief clone,) and CE, a small easy to use and learn > editor that's out there somewhere. Yep, but don't forget to learn the basics of VI! Be shure that VI and not your choice is avalaible on every Unix! Remember Murphy if you need to edit something on an Unix machine! :-) Michael -- Michael Soentgerath boss@msoenix.du.gtn.com boss@msoenix.GUN.de