Suggestions to a command line editor

Rus Foster rghf at fsck.me.uk
Wed Sep 3 07:53:17 PDT 2003


> Well I've been using FreeBSD for the past maybe 4 years now.
> I've been using "ee" (don't laugh) to do all my editing on the command line.
> Im looking to grow out of "ee" into something else.
> Naturally, something that can open/edit files.
> And if possible, I've heard of editors with color syntax highlighting,
> search/replace,
> and other voodoo, that "ee" isn't capable of.
> In general, I edit FreeBSD system files, php/html and related files.
>

<flame proof suit on>

I would suggest vi/vim/emacs to start with. More voodo than you can shake
a large stick at

</flame>
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