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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: 15 Jun 1996 19:22:34 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4pv2hq$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E riff_one@athenet.net (Brian) wrote: > 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. /bin/sh. Type ``set -o emacs'' or shorter ``set -E'' to get the command-line editor to work. All the shells from the packages (bash, tcsh, zsh, ksh) do also support this feature as well. > Also looking for a good text editor. Religous point. Pick one out of the ``Editors'' section in the ports collection (or packages), and see if it fits your needs. (Don't pick one of the Emacsen however, they will appear `bloated' in your eyes. -- Jörg, typing this in FSF Emacs. :) From your description, even /usr/bin/ee might fit. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)