text editor
Erich Dollansky
erichfreebsdlist at ovitrap.com
Tue Aug 28 22:59:01 UTC 2012
Hi,
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:41:52 +0000
"Robin, Michael" <robin at chapman.edu> wrote:
> What is VIM? Where could it be downloaded?
> What is CLI? I am looking for GUI/command prompt text editor for
> Windows 7/8. The notepad plus program lacks start/end block setting
> option even though it have a lot of hot keys. My top priority is
> setting start/end block option which was available for old DOS-based
> text editor, but I have not seen any window-based text editor for
> this option. 16-bit DOS text editor program will not run on 64-bit
> operating system. Please advise. Thank you.
>
> Michael
> Programmer Analyst
>
Analyst?
And you did not notice that you are on a FreeBSD mailing list?
Erich
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Devin Teske [mailto:devin.teske at fisglobal.com] On Behalf Of
> dteske at freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:25 PM
> To: Robin, Michael; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: text editor
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robin, Michael
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:10 PM
> > To: 'freebsd-questions at freebsd.org'
> > Subject: text editor
> >
> > Which text editor program will run 64-bit operating system
>
> On FreeBSD?
> In the GUI? or on the CLI?
>
>
> > with following
> > features:
> > * Support 100 percent of hot keys
>
> How many is that? If a program has programmable hot keys, would that
> suffice?
>
>
> > * Hot keys available for setting start/end block to be copied,
> > moved or
> deleted
> > without requiring any mouse lock.
> > It is not possible to use mouse lock or to hold shift key combined
> > with
> navigating
> > key at the same time without accidently dese4lcing.
>
> A challenge, no-doubt.
>
>
> > * Support special ASCII characters
> >
>
> Less of a challenge. Most editors are good about special ASCII
> characters (the ones that don't are in the minority, imho).
>
> ...
>
> I'd honestly recommend vim (CLI) or gvim (GUI).
>
> NOTE: Assuming FreeBSD here.
> --
> Devin
>
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