On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve, you mentioned something about how you created a file called "log" > which you save various tips about Linux in. When you want to refer to > something you said you open the file with pico and hit ^W and search a > word etc....just how do you do that? I created a file "log" and I put > stuff in it. I pico log, ^w type a word ie. boot and nothing comes up. > Can you give me a little more info on how you have yours setup? tnx
Well, the way you describe it sounds like it should work... At the command line, I type 'pico LOG' which gives me this: http://wizard.dyndns.org/pico_log.png Then I hit ^W (or CTRL-w) whichever way you want to represent those two keystrokes: http://wizard.dyndns.org/ctrl-w.png Then I type in, say, "cookies" http://wizard.dyndns.org/cookies.png and hit <ENTER>. The cursor jumps to the first occurence it finds after its present location. http://wizard.dyndns.org/done.png If you keep hitting ^W, the cursor will jump to the next occurence, wrapping around to the top of the file once all have been found. Pico has always had that feature for as long as I can remember... If there's some reason your version just doesn't do that, you might want to try nano. It's a pico clone but it's smaller, and some of the menu keys are a bit different... some might even say more useful. - Steve
