On Monday 11 August 2008, Moses O McKnight wrote: >On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim >> offerings myself. > >If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I >would recommend nano over vi/vim any day! At least with nano you can >easily figure out how to type a few changes and exit, but with vi/vim >you have to learn how to think upside down with rags stuffed up your >nose, and then you have to memorize 100 commands! Every time I >accidentally run vim I have to figure out how to open the tutorial so I >can figure out how to exit the thing without killing the terminal. Then >I forget the commands before I run it next time :-) Enough of that rant >though... > >The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text >Editor" in the Accessories menu. > >Moses > Yes, gedit is very good, but for some reason I don't seem to have it on this F8 box. A pity, really. I got started with vi before I ever ran linux, we had a conversion patch for tsedit on the coco/os9 systems that turned it into a vi clone, so I've been using that for over 20 years now.
As for quitting vi, "ESC:wqENTER" will exit the edit mode, then save and quit the editor. My fingers do it in their sleep. :) > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You'll feel devilish tonight. Toss dynamite caps under a flamenco dancer's heel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
