One of the nice things about linux distributions is a
variety of tools to do different jobs.
While not a vi fan, I use emacs a great deal, and find it a
very powerful editor, and an environment for doing much
more.
While I use pico for a simple script edit, the task is no
more difficult if in emacs.
In windows you had notepad, but you probably also used
wordpad, a word processor, and even an html editor, etc.
To me emacs is all these and more, you don't have to be a
programmer to benefit from its power.
You do have to take the tutorial when you first start, and
later learn a bit about some other advanced commands. This
isn't hard, its like learning that wordpad can save in RTF,
or Doc and why would you want each.
Ron
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> With all due respect to both Emacs and Vim, the two great programming
> languages on Linux, may I, as a newbie, suggest to all other newbies who
> do not plan to become programmers but who want to use a text editor for
> normal configuration files:
>
> THINK TWICE AND THRICE BEFORE STEPPING INTO THE INFINITE LOOP OF EMACS
> AND VIM, or they will eat you up alive or send you straight to a mental
> asylum.
>
> Use a simple text editor such as mcedit, pico, joe, the default KDE text
> editor and so on.
>
> If you decide later that you want to learn programming, you can then
> move up to Emacs or Vim. But not until then.
>
> Benjamin
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