On Sunday 28 August 2005 11:08 pm, Connor wrote:
| I' talking about how to edit a file via the whole [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
| Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:05 PM
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| Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing on an external hard drive
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| On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:51 pm, Connor wrote:
| | How do I edit via command line and how do I scroll when I type help?
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| When at the command prompt, I use mc (The Midnight Commander). It
| provides a
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| file navigation / management / editing interface. Back in the bad old DOS
| days, I used Norton Commander and MC is much like it. I get to have my
| command prompt AND a visual interfact to the file system.
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| HTH,
I understood that. There is a file editor in mc, or you can use pico, ed,
gedit or any other editor you may have installed. vi and emacs are a little
less user friendly than the one in mc, and I always gravitate to the easy
answers when reasonable.
If there is a way to edit a file directly from the command line, I have not
done so yet (been a Linux user since 1998), and I have no wish to try :). If
reference to CLI text editors is not what you want, I am sorry, but I am not
the one to help you. Maybe some one else can,
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Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Registered Linux User 247790
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