What good text editors are available in AIX 3.2?
Alanelson
not sure what good text editors are available. Any suggestions would severly
cut down on looking through the /usr file
thanks so much
Alan
Tony Fitzgerald
Nicholas Dronen <ndr...@io.frii.com> wrote:
>If you want to learn Unix at all -- and don't want to be just another
>GUI-enslaved user -- you should at the least learn how to use vi. For
>system administration, a GUI editor is simply less efficient.
Why not the best of both worlds, vim (Vi IMproved.) A fully vi
compatible editor with a GUI mode and features too numerous to mention
but including full session logging to allow edit recovery after a
system crash or session disconnect and/or unlimited undo/redo
capability, on-line documentation, split screen operation, colour
syntax highlighting support for most popular languages (Makefiles,
Perl, HTML, TeX, etc...), digraph support for accented character
input, right to left support for Hebrew and Arabic input, command
recall. Vim is the default editor on RedHat Linux and is available
for Wintel and other platforms as well.
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim
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David K. Bryant
>I have an old RS/6000 server in my room, I am playing around with it and I am
>not sure what good text editors are available.
There is only One True Editor: vi
J.N. Subrahmanyam
GNU Emacs is also available on AIX. But you need to download the AIX
specific version of it. You can really enjoy working with emacs editor. I
installed Emacs on my AIX box, few days back. It is working fine.
Regards,
subbu
Tony Fitzgerald wrote:
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j...@unb.ca (Tony Fitzgerald) wrote:
> In article <i5Q84.1523$G3.190...@news.frii.net>,
> Nicholas Dronen <ndr...@io.frii.com> wrote:
> >If you want to learn Unix at all -- and don't want to be just another
> >GUI-enslaved user -- you should at the least learn how to use vi.
For
> >system administration, a GUI editor is simply less efficient.
>
> Why not the best of both worlds, vim (Vi IMproved.)
One simple reason: it doesn't come with the base system and vi does.
If you're going to do admin, get real comfortable with vi. If
you're going to code, try emacs.
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I though the true editor was ed and vi was a full screen front end
developed for wimps. ;-)
Trog 'edlin' Woolley
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Norman Levin
>
> While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway
> dbr...@netcom.com (David K. Bryant) wrote:
>
> >alan...@aol.com (Alanelson) writes:
> >
> >>I have an old RS/6000 server in my room, I am playing around with it and I am
> >>not sure what good text editors are available.
> >
> >There is only One True Editor: vi
>
> I though the true editor was ed and vi was a full screen front end
> developed for wimps. ;-)
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Gary Murphy
I like Visual SlickEdit. I know it is supported on AIX v4. I think it
works on AIX 3.2.5 as well. SlickEdit is a GUI editor with syntax
highlighting, a very good macro language, built-in DIFF and grep, etc. It
also runs on almost every imaginable platform including Win, OS/2, etc.
Tony Fitzgerald wrote:
> In article <i5Q84.1523$G3.190...@news.frii.net>,
> Nicholas Dronen <ndr...@io.frii.com> wrote:
> >If you want to learn Unix at all -- and don't want to be just another
> >GUI-enslaved user -- you should at the least learn how to use vi. For
> >system administration, a GUI editor is simply less efficient.
>
Michael Kraemer
> I have an old RS/6000 server in my room, I am playing around with it and I am
> cut down on looking through the /usr file
> thanks so much
> Alan
For a sysadmin "vi" is mandatory (its the only one really builtin).
If you've got CDE there's a builtin editor too.
For serious work, especially coding (C, HTML, LaTex, ...), you might give
the freeware "nedit" a try.
Michael Kraemer
>
> GNU Emacs is also available on AIX. But you need to download the AIX
> specific version of it. You can really enjoy working with emacs editor. I
> installed Emacs on my AIX box, few days back. It is working fine.
>
> Regards,
> subbu
>
I discourage people to use emacs (or its variant xemacs).
It swallows a lot of RAM (w/o benefit), and, even worse,
it breaks at every new AIX release. This isn't AIX's fault,
since 95%+ of all software built for lower AIX levels runs on higher
release *w/o recompile*. Not so emacs, since they apparently mess around
with the stack frame or such, emacs fails on a regular basis when it comes
to change AIX versions.
Jerry Leslie
: I have an old RS/6000 server in my room, I am playing around with it
: would severly cut down on looking through the /usr file
: thanks so much
: Alan
Text editors are like religions: everyone has their favorite,
which they know is the best one.
Having said that, I'm using "ED" from inside 'tin' on
an AIX 3.2.5 system to write this followup:
From ftp.wku.edu:
ED
Version: V1.5.7, 17-AUG-1994
Description: An EDT-lookalike editor for VMS, UNIX, and DOS
Author: Charles Sandmann <sand...@clio.rice.edu>
Architecture: VAX,AXP
# of parts: 6
Language: C
The ED editor includes an FTP client to edit files on a remote
system, as well as its own newsreader.
--Jerry Leslie (my opinions are strictly my own)
ralph jacobs
"Jerry Leslie" <les...@clio.rice.edu> schreef in bericht
news:84umbj$b4d$1...@joe.rice.edu...
I use PICO editor. which is available at the pine site.
use www.google.com to search
Villy Kruse
>
>I use PICO editor. which is available at the pine site.
>use www.google.com to search
>
Comes as part of pine, and is available. htp://www-frec.bull.com has
it in their archive.
Villy
rbfi...@my-deja.com
fancy letters to the printer then don't attempt vi, you'll need to use
one of the GUI's mentioned in the other responses. But if your looking
for an editor to write scripts or analyze files you'll want to learn vi,
keep in mind vi is an Unix editor and can be found on most unix
platforms, all the other GUI stuff needs to be downloaded and installed
and might not be available for all platforms [if you even care!] (you
might also need a color Terminal, graphics card, drivers etc. for a GUI
editor). If you don't like vi you can also try emacs.
In article <19991224142825...@ng-cp1.aol.com>,
alan...@aol.com (Alanelson) wrote:
> I have an old RS/6000 server in my room, I am playing around with it
and I am
> not sure what good text editors are available. Any suggestions would
severly
> cut down on looking through the /usr file
> thanks so much
> Alan
>