On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 00:20, SI Reasoning wrote: > What he is talking about is that those coming to linux > from the windows world, who know the windows default > keystrokes, would like a text editor that they could > just use without having to figure out new keystrokes. > I too like pico, but wish it could be seperated from > pine. It would be nice to have the option of using > windows keystrokes in most editors. That way those > from the unix world could have their familiar strokes > and those from the windows world could also have > theirs. I wonder if it would be crazy to try and have > mandrake create a unified key bindings for all > programs and window managers. Then you could set up > several pre made templates and the ability to > customize, but just once! > > > --- Jeremy Salch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > ===== > SI Reasoning > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve >neither liberty nor safety." > Benjamin Franklin > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > >
What keystrokes? Everything in windows is mouse clicks.
