[wplug] A question of etiquette

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 2 13:02:11 EDT 2005


On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:01:40 -0700
"Michael P. O Connor" <mpop at mikeoconnor.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
> > Rob Prowel <tempest766 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Heh, on my GUI system, I have nedit installed.  It's a very
> > lightweight WYSIWYG type editor.  Though I still use
> > vi(1) 25% of the time.  All my non-GUI systems, it's
> > vi(1) all the way.  I can't understand installing an application
> > for the mere purpose of text editing when the base has
> > several methods to edit text:
> > 
> > # cat <<EOF>> TXTFILE
> > # vi TXTFILE
> > # sed/awk/tr/whatever TXTFILE > NEWTXTFILE
> > 
> > Too easy.
> 
> depends on the text you are editing, I want my emacs for my cpp my h and
> all my other files. vi remindes me to much of edline

If you need to have special formatting of special characters
for programming, scripting, or what have you, check out vim
and/or a ~/.virc file.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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