On 20 Jan 2002 23:45:24 +0100 "Fabrice FACORAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > And GNU nano (enhanced pico clone) in contrib. No need to install pine. It's not installed by default, though. :-\ nano-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.nano-editor.org/ -Matti
