On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Mike Hicks wrote: [snip] > I want this: An editor that can understand all of my nice keys that I > used to use when I ran DOS -- arrows, delete, insert, home, and end > should all work in a nice and/or easily re-configurable manner > (personally, I prefer home and end to go to the beginning and end of a > line on the screen, rather than the beginning and end of a document, or > the beginning and end of a line that wraps around the screen). > Selecting text using shift-arrow was nice. Fortunately, Linux seems to > understand shift-insert for paste (though it locks up Netscape..). Vim has a nice interface for this which I just learned about: hit "v" to enter "visual mode" then move your selection around with the arrow or movement keys. It selects blocks of text. "V" does whole lines and "^V" does text veritcally! > I also (need)/(really, really want) to have colorized text. I know this > is a feature on many editors, but it's never easy to find. Does anyone know how to turn this on in plain Emacs? I know it's possible, but I don't know how! Again, Vim does pretty nice colorized text, but it only seems to work well in the console and in rxvt -- everything else looks awful, and since at work I can't use either of those, I can't use syntax coloring. I also wish Vim was smarter about indents, like Emacs. I'd rather > have it default to displaying in color if the terminal can handle it. > (I also think that all Linux distributions should default to using `ls > --color=auto -F' but I must just be weird..) Also, I want the editor to Slackware does :) > be a bit smarter about line wrapping. Files that end in .c, .html, and > other well-known source file formats should automatically disable line > wrapping. vi never wraps lines, which is annoying for writing long things (which is why I'm writing in Emacs right now). Emacs has good support for most file formats, thankfully. Though I am not getting tab support in HTML mode like in C mode. Does this feature exist, or is all Emacs-HTML unindented? > After using Linux for a while, I think the PC DOS 7.0 edit command was > probably one of the best editors I've seen. I'm not sure if it had > color highlighting, but it had a nice command line interface > (unfortunately, I never figured it out until far too late). To do a > global search-and-replace in your document, hit [ESC] (to get to the > command line), then type `s/original/replacement/g'. Anyone who has > used sed or perl knows this syntax. You mean, like vi? :s/original/replacement/g It certainly wasn't the perfect > editor (I seem to recall being forced to page through large amounts of > documentation just to figure out how to save anything), but something to > consider as a model. I've heard that Nedit is a really nice editor, but I've never used it. You might want to try that. Still trying to find the perfect editor, Luke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org