larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton) (01/31/91)
Does anyone know of a full-screen editor for the unix system. Needless to say, I've been spoiled by FSE on the CDC NOS/VE system and vi or emacs is not the answer. Thanks. -- ************************************************************** L. D. STRATTON "If you had listened hard enough you larry@bradley.edu might have heard what I meant to say. BRADLEY UNIVERSITY Nothing." - - - - McKuen
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (01/31/91)
From the keyboard of larry@bradley.bradley.edu (Larry D. Stratton): :Does anyone know of a full-screen editor for the unix system. Needless to :say, I've been spoiled by FSE on the CDC NOS/VE system and vi or emacs is :not the answer. Thanks. Then suffer, as all spoiled children should. :-) This isn't meant as a flame. The smiley means you should smile. It's normal to want what you're used to and not have to learn anything else. Several de facto proverbs come to mind: Objects at rest tend to stay at rest. You can't teach an old dog a new trick. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Vi and emacs are full-screen editors for UNIX. If you are on a POSIX.2 compliant system, you can guarantee that vi will be there. Both are quite extensible, although with emacs you can actually get much closer to a CASE-like environment if such should be your goal. If you can bring yourself to learn either vi or emacs, you'll have a much better chance of surviving on UNIX systems all over the world. You may choose whichever you want, but be able to resort to vi if that's all there is, or if the flavour of emacs you find on the system too brain-damaged for your tolerance level. If there's some kind of functionality you need, just ask. People here are actually quite willing to explain how to do just about anything using UNIX tools plus vi or emacs. Remember, this is UNIX: it doesn't all have to be in the same program (religious emacs O/S proponents not withstanding.) Give it a try and tell us what you're missing. --tom -- "Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.com>)