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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux5.cso.uiuc.edu!igor From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (Igor Vladim Roshchin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: 15 Jun 1996 15:29:09 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4puks5$ihi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <1996Jun14.230733.5021@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux5.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephan Forth (stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de) wrote: : Brian (riff_one@athenet.net) wrote: : You could give tcsh a try. It is in the ports collection. : After you installed the port you can use the command chsh : to change your login shell. Do not forget add it to /etc/shells. : : Also looking for a good text editor. That is one that : : is tight, fast, small, non-bloated, inserts a line when : : ya hit enter, deletes the previous character when ya : : hit back space, goes to the next screen when ya hit page : : down.....in other words a editor that works like the : : millions of them that I used in MS-DOG/Windoze. : Uuuaahha.... :-) : But if you still need this I guess that pico is the right one : for you. It is bundled with pine, a mail frontend. It's also : in the ports collection. Usually it's included in pine-package as a separate binary You can also try joe, which is compact version of emacs, i.e. small enough and without unnecessary fancy features like mailer, news-reader,psyciatrist (unlike emacs). IgoR aka StR@komkon.org