Yeah, I may have to use an editor on my main system.


I might try to get pico working though.  I used to like pico.


I'm not sure it's worth it to learn vi.  It is painful.



On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:31:59 PM UTC-6, Tim in Boulder wrote:
>
>  On 12/18/2012 10:31 AM, bob wrote:
> > When you do an "adb shell" to your Android device, what text editor
> > do you prefer to use?
>
> In general I prefer to use a more powerful editor on my main system and 
> then just push text files using adb push, or, in a pinch, cat >filename 
> from the shell. Though I haven't needed to edit text files on the device 
> very often.
>
> If I did have such a need, I'd probably set up some scripts to push 
> changed files to Android (script would keep a small database of MD5s of 
> files, say, and when I ran it would compare the files on the PC to the MD5s 
> in the database and "adb push" anything that had changed). Then tying that 
> script to a key in my editor would make it pretty quick and easy to send 
> new files to the device.
>
> Tim
>
>  

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