Bruno Veldeman wrote:
> >
> > What does mc use for its editor? It's probably using one of the editors
> > that come with Linux.
> >
> >
>
> No clue, it seems it has something like joe, vi or vim, but I am not sure.
> :-{
>
afaik, on Linux, mc has it's own editor, called 'mcedit', which is invoked
unless you disable the 'use internal edit' option
on FreeBSD (perhaps on other *BSDs too) however the editor is not compiled so
mc uses whatever the $EDITOR env var says
Talking about perl-aware editors on BSD/Linux there are a number of good (and
free) editors with a more gentle learning curve than
emacs and vi:
- Nedit http://www.nedit.org/
- FTE http://fte.sourceforge.net/ (<plug>i use this one because of its
automatic indenting feature which i find very useful</plug>)
- SciTE http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
(all these editors claim to run on Win32 too. I haven't tried that, mainly
because I don't use windows)
on BSD/Linux they however require you to have X and other toolkits
(motif/lesstif for nedit, gtk and scintilla for scite) installed
console editors have been mentioned by others in this thread (joe, jed, vim,
lpe)
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