On 15/04/2008, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for shell program for source code edition. I have used nano, > but it isn't enough. I need more "real" IDE like functionalities eg constant > view of current row number, file browser and selection, cutting, pasting and > copying functions. I also tried to use motor, but I got segmentation fault > after execution... :-/ I am using Etch. > > > Tero Mäntyvaara > Tero
I use vi and vim on separate machines. Really what you are asking for is an ncurses IDE but I don't know of any around. Vim is vi improved and has syntax highlighting ( ':synatx enable' but don't forget ':set background=light|dark' first - choose light or dark there ). Vim is easier to use than vi in some respects but uses the vi commands like 'i; to insert, ':sh' to get to a shell, and so on. My OpenBSD box has vi not vim. Look up the cheat sheets on vi. One useful command to remember is Esc to stop inserting or get out of another command. ':help' may help too but is a bit archaic in it's navigation technique so learn that first. I think it is worth learning vi/vim because you will encounter it on many *nix and BSD systems. Regards L.
