On Monday 21 January 2002 07:01, Quel Qun wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 14:45, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > > le dim 20-01-2002 � 23:17, Quel Qun a �crit : > > > While trying to get some people started with Mandrake on irc, it > > > appears that one of the big obstacle is the difficulty to edit a very > > > simple text config file.
> > > Very often, people are booting windows to come asking for help and it > > > is quite hard to explain how they will have to use vi after rebooting. > > > There is a need for a very simple editor installed by default that does > > > not use Ctrl-K D to save a file, and that uses correctly the del and > > > backspace key. > > > The only one we found (thx Woody) coming close to this is pico, but it > > > is embedded in the pine rpm, and i don't know if this package is > > > intalled by default. > > there's joe too > > joe is everything but user-friendly. That's the Ctrl-K D one. How can I > guess I need this to save a file? mcedit is indeed much better, but mc > is not installed by default, or is it? Sissies! You should all be using sed! (-: Seriously, KDE has a default text editor, as do many other WM's. Who here does no-X installs for a workstation? Cheers; Leon
