le lun 21-01-2002 � 00:57, Leon Brooks a �crit :
> 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?

Are you kidding ?

1�/ when fail to launch miserably and you have to edit config files by
hand
2�/ when some partitions are incorrect  in fstab and you have to boot in
single mode ( so only with / partition sometimes ) and have to manually
edit fstab
3�/ when there is a pb and have to edit some files by hand without
having X
4�/ if there was a very easy console text editor installed by default,
when I will tell someone to modify a file, I will just tell it :
"my_simple_editor file_to_modify". Why ? because it's faster than
browsing to find the file and because we should encourage user to know a
minimum the CLI

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