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

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