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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:10:27 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31C48653.30DA@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Brian wrote: > > I am running a 386-40, 8mb, FreeBSD 2.1.0 RELEASE > > I am looking for some recommendations for a shell > that has a built in command line editor or a package > that I can add into an existing shell. Try bash. It's available as a package in the dist. > > Also looking for a good text editor. That is one that > is tight, fast, small, non-bloated, inserts a line when > ya hit enter, deletes the previous character when ya > hit back space, goes to the next screen when ya hit page > down.....in other words a editor that works like the > millions of them that I used in MS-DOG/Windoze. Try pico. Its packed with pine (also avaialble as a package in the dist. I hope this helps. Ken