Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
If you mean a word processor, then you have KOffice and AbiWord to choose from. You should probably be most comfortable with those. -Original Message- From: Joco Salvatti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/12/2005 3:49 PM To: Misc OpenBSD Cc: Subject:Text Editor

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Joco Salvatti wrote: I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X environment. I'd like to know a good one, since there is no OpenOffice port to OpenBSD. Well, abiword isn't that bad. If you're running kde, you might want to try kword from the koffice package...

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Haag
I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X Try Paranoid Writer or XedPlus, they are both part of the productivity/siag port/package. -Jason

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Adam PAPAI
Joco Salvatti wrote: Hi all. I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X environment. I'd like to know a good one, since there is no OpenOffice port to OpenBSD. gedit/kedit/kate and so on.. Or abiword for *.doc and rtf and so on. Or my favourite: vi/vim/gvim

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X environment. I'd like to know a good one, since there is no OpenOffice port to OpenBSD. You mean a plain TEXT editor or a WYSIWYG kind of editor (~MS word) ? If you refered to the first one I would suggest an xterm +

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Hernandez
You might try gvim, or xemacs, or bluefish? Mike

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Jon Drews
On 9/12/05, Joco Salvatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X environment. Ted 2.17 http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ an *.rtf editor has been tested heavily on OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6. Get the ted-2.17.src.tar.gz tarball. You

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Sebastiaan Indesteege
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:49:16AM -0300, Joco Salvatti wrote: Hi all. I'd like to know if anyone can tell me a good text editor that runs under X environment. I'd like to know a good one, since there is no OpenOffice port to OpenBSD. I've just tried out OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta, and it

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Sebastiaan Indesteege [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just tried out OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta, and it seems to be running fine on my i386 -CURRENT system, under linux emulation. Which is only available on i386 :(

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Antoine Jacoutot: [Charset ISO-8859-15 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Selon Sebastiaan Indesteege [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just tried out OpenOffice.org 2.0 beta, and it seems to be running fine on my i386 -CURRENT system, under linux

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Michael Shalayeff wrote: which is relatively easy to fix having enough motivation... Well, not really, one must also have the knowledge to do it, which I have not, unfortunately ;)

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from STeve Andre': [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Monday 12 September 2005 14:56, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Michael Shalayeff wrote: you barely need to even program anything. so yeah excuses... bla bla bla... oh

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
STeve Andre' wrote: Michael makes an important point here. One often does not know how to do something at the beginning of a project and must learn how to do the things needed to achieve a goal. I know that, but be realistic, I know _nothing_ about programming... So I don't think saying it

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Will H. Backman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoine Jacoutot Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:45 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Text Editor STeve Andre' wrote: Michael makes an important point here. One often does not know how

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Mike Henker
Hi your answers help me a lot, I just want to know exactly what you said!! how many options I have around text editors. Finally,I will use vi, perhaps like you said is the harder option but if a lot of UNIX people use it and recommand that means something... Thank you very much for all the

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Sigfred Håversen
J.C. Roberts wrote: 3.) Learn ed -If vi is not installed, ed probably is. Some ancient systems don't have vi but the odds of coming across such a system are fairly slim. The only text editor in bsd.rd is ed, so chances are that one may have to use it on occasion (shudder). /Sigfred

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Zoong PHAM
On Sunday, 7 August 2005 at 9:34:18 +0200, Sigfred Heversen wrote: The only text editor in bsd.rd is ed, so chances are that one may have to use it on occasion (shudder). And if you are in support role, sometimes you have to tell someone on the phone how to edit system config files (in

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 06:21:55PM +1000, Zoong PHAM wrote: On Sunday, 7 August 2005 at 9:34:18 +0200, Sigfred Heversen wrote: The only text editor in bsd.rd is ed, so chances are that one may have to use it on occasion (shudder). And if you are in support role, sometimes you have to

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread imEnsion
I'm surprised everyone keeps recommending using vi and vim, yet no one has given a pointer on how to learn it. Sure, an OReilly book may come in handly for this (such as the pocket version of vi tips), but the best way to learn is of course to read the man page. Aside from the man page, if you

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, imEnsion wrote: I'm surprised everyone keeps recommending using vi and vim, yet no one has given a pointer on how to learn it. Sure, an OReilly book may come in handly for this (such as the pocket version of vi tips), but the best way to learn is of course to read the man

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Moritz Grimm
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, imEnsion wrote: I'm surprised everyone keeps recommending using vi and vim, yet no one has given a pointer on how to learn it. Sure, an OReilly book may come An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi, /usr/share/doc/usd/12.vi/. This document is the

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Richard P. Koett
You guys are all sissies. Real men use cat(1).

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Brian
If you install the port vim, it comes with vimtutor. You just type: $ /usr/local/bin/vimtutor And the tutor is pretty good. It helped me out. Brian Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Han Boetes
You can use mg on OpenBSD. All you have to learn to get started is that ctrl-x ctrl-c saves the file and exits. # Han

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Tim Hammerquist
Richard P. Koett wrote: X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 You guys are all sissies. Real men use cat(1). What kind of men use Outlook? Well, at least you can still do: C:\ copy con stuff.bat @echo off del /s * nul ^Z C:\ stuff

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Gustavo Rios
On 8/6/05, Gerardo Santana Gsmez Garrido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/05, Mike Henker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi yesterday I installed OpenBSD 3.7 seem to be all ok, my question is how I can edit the files of the operating system,what editor you recommand? (I m a newbie) If isn t in the

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Paul Pruett
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html Ed, man! !man ed On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 09:01:40 -0700 From: Richard P. Koett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Text editor You guys are all sissies. Real men use cat(1).

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:34:44 + (GMT), Paul Pruett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html Ed, man! !man ed From the paged linked above: Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed: golem$ ed ? help ? ? ? quit ? exit ? bye ? hello? ? eat flaming

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-08-07 09:01:40 -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: Real men use cat(1). And real women use magnets. :-) Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:52:17PM +0200, Mike Henker wrote: Hi yesterday I installed OpenBSD 3.7 seem to be all ok, my question is how I can edit the files of the operating system,what editor you recommand? (I m a newbie) If isn t in the default installation how can I install it? I saw the

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread jimmy
Quoting Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:52:17PM +0200, Mike Henker wrote: Hi yesterday I installed OpenBSD 3.7 seem to be all ok, my question is how I can edit the files of the operating system,what editor you recommand? (I m a newbie) If isn t in the default

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
On 8/6/05, Mike Henker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi yesterday I installed OpenBSD 3.7 seem to be all ok, my question is how I can edit the files of the operating system,what editor you recommand? (I m a newbie) If isn t in the default installation how can I install it? I saw the FAQ and the man

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-08-06 20:52:17 +0200, Mike Henker wrote: Hi yesterday I installed OpenBSD 3.7 seem to be all ok, my question is how I can edit the files of the operating system,what editor you recommand? (I m a newbie) If isn t in the default installation how can I man -k editor Best Martin --

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/6/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.) pico is a very simple editor that is friendly to new people who have only worked with modeless editors like MS notepad. If you just want to edit the damn file without destroying it or giving up in frustration, pico is a good answer that

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:10:49 -0400, Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/6/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.) pico is a very simple editor that is friendly to new people who have only worked with modeless editors like MS notepad. If you just want to edit the damn file