On Aug 11, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. :)
vi may be vile but it works, it is on every 'nix system, it tolerates large files I end up leaving interesting char strings in the middle of edits with non-vi editors just from reflex. With older, slower machines I can have short edits done with vi before larger editors even come up. Dave >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
