On Sunday 20 January 2002 05:01 pm, you wrote:> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 14:45, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > > le dim 20-01-2002 � 23:17, Quel Qun a �crit : > > > Hi, > > > > > > 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? > =-= > kk1
Hey I have used joe since i started using Linux and I love Joe. It was my first linux text editor and i swear by it. Different strokes for different folks
