CLI text editor recommendation

Andy Greenwood greenwood.andy at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 10:24:51 PDT 2006


Thanks for the advice everyone. I will certainly check out my php and
see if I can figure out why it's giving me errors as-is.

On 9/13/06, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
> > I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append
> > newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit
> > PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?>. ee
> > and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't
> > installed emacs to try that yet, since the man page says that it also
> > does the same thing. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Not an editor, but why not just do this:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> <?php
>
> # php code here
>
> # note no last ?>. php will treat the rest of the file as php
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>


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