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#! rnews 1623 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@onthenet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD cmd line editor / text editor recommends? Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:49:31 +1000 Organization: Network Technologies P/L Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31CAB67B.59E2@onthenet.com.au> References: <4psnen$p9h@hermes.athenet.net> <DtBA6t.2yM@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> NNTP-Posting-Host: pulsar.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) > Brian (riff_one@athenet.net) wrote: > : I am running a 386-40, 8mb, FreeBSD 2.1.0 RELEASE > > : I am looking for some recommendations for a shell > : that has a built in command line editor or a package > : that I can add into an existing shell. > Try installing 'tcsh' or 'bash' from the packages/shells area. Both have filename completion and editing/history functions. As for text editors, however much I hate so say it, become familiar with 'vi'. It's basically the only universally available editor on U*x systems. Almost any other editor environment you use on "your" system will not exist anywhere else and if you don't know vi, you're lost! Sure you can get emacs almost everywhere but you have to remember to cart around "your" customisations (doesn't everyone customise their emacs environment???) where ever you may go... Tony