-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Steve Shockley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:56 AM >> To: misc >> Subject: Re: Editing C with... >> >> Nick Holland wrote: >>> but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the >>> base system tools first. >> More to the point, have a working knowledge of ed. Had a royal PITA > the >> other day when I misspelled "softdep" in the /usr line in fstab, and >> didn't know how to use ed. >> >>> Most modern OSs (with the exception of >>> Windows, assuming you wish to lump it in with that category) include >>> a usable editor. >> Notepad? edlin? >> > > > Windows still has edit, as well, which is kinder and gentler than edlin > and will run without the GUI (IIRC). > > >
Running "edit" in a cmd shell on vista yesterday crashed my VM. I'm going to try it in powershell now. Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIIPkcLeTfO4yBSAcRAqiPAJ4kSMREDC4LW0v/zMPHKyP6nS0rJwCfQp9H m6VXXHWUQ9w2PZ6XuctrRzQ= =0IDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
