Baseline Editors and Scripting Tools
BC Project: FY06-04
Date of Policy: 23 Mar 2012
Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024 (see Revision Log)
Each participating center will install and maintain the following baseline set of editors and scripting tools. These packages will either be included in a user's default path or available through a module. References for obtaining information and downloading these packages are included below.
Baseline Editors
| Name | URL |
|---|---|
| Emacs | http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html |
| Vim | http://www.vim.org |
Additionally, the vi command will be a symbolic link to Vim.
| Name | URL |
|---|---|
| Baseline shells | All shells described in BC policy FY05-06 (Login Shells) |
| Expect | https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index |
| Java | http://www.java.com |
| Perl | http://www.perl.org |
| Ruby | http://www.ruby-lang.org |
| Tcl/Tk | https://www.tcl-lang.org/ |
| Date | Revision |
|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2024 | Removed Nedit and Xemacs |
| 30 Sep 2021 | BC Team Audit - Updated URL for Expect and Tcl/Tk |
| 15 Mar 2018 | BC Team Audit - Updated URL for Expect |
| 12 May 2016 | Clarified that vi will be a symbolic link to vim; reordered first table alphabetically |
| 01 May 2015 | Added editors NEdit and XEmacs |
| 03 Apr 2014 | BC Team Audit |
| 23 Mar 2012 | BC Team Audit |
| 05 Jul 2011 | Removed Python; added Java |
| 31 Jul 2008 | Added: Editors and scripting tools to be available on all allocated HPC systems and non-storage user-accessible support servers, and installed in the users default path |
| 14 Jun 2007 | removed Pico editor |
| 05 Jun 2007 | Changed "Vi" to "Vi and Vim" |