le lun 21-01-2002 � 21:06, Shara Hearns a �crit :
> > > > 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?
> 
> This isn't for you Fabrice, I'm just gonna vent a bit here :)
 
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 06:46, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:

> > 3�/ when there is a pb and have to edit some files by hand without
> > having X
> 
> So goes life in the world of *nix and it's variants. I doubt that'll
> ever change, at least no time soon. 

And I love this : have the opportunity to edit everything by hand from
CLI. That's why for example I'd rather have a text human readable /proc
instead of a binary one ( http://lwn.net/2001/1108/kernel.php3 )
> 
> > 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
> 
> And what CLI editor do you know of that will simply go find some flat
> text file that is buried 6 some directories deep for DOS, Win-anything,
> *nix or anything else?  From a commandline? I'd like to see it. 

My english is bas I don't understand, sorry
 
> whereis or find will track a file down for me quickly enough, but I have
> to decide which file is the one I want. Therefore, "my_simple_editor
> file_to_modify" becomes "whereis file_to_edit" make a choice and then,
> joe file_to_edit. How much easier does it need to be?
> 
> The bottom line is, for someone coming out of the WinDoze environment,
> nothing CLI based is going to be _easy_ to use.

and vi is not the easiest to learn. So i'd rather see a minimal editor
like pico/nano or joe. At this time it's vi whic is include by default,
I'd like to see another one so that I know that when I tell someone to
launch it I'm sure that this editor is installed and that I will not
have to explain how to use urpmi or install a rpm by hand ( easy but
"painfull" for me ).

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