Suggestions to a command line editor

Alin-Adrian Anton aanton at reversedhell.net
Wed Sep 3 07:54:05 PDT 2003


You can use VIM (vi improved). I consider it the best editor, with full 
syntax highliting, etc. You can find it in the /usr/ports/editors/vim I 
suppose.

A more easy to use editor but not so powerfull is pico, ported from linux.

Gerard Samuel wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome, while I look through the ports to see if 
> anything jumps out at me...
> Thanks for any tips you may provide...
> 
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