On Sat 08 Mar 2003 21:57, Brook Humphrey posted as excerpted below: > doh no sorry i ment the editor built into mc
mcedit. There is of course mcview as well, to parallel the view mode of vim. I tried vi/vim b4 emacs, and ended up using it more than expected while learning how to get the rest of my system working as desired, when I switched from MSWormOS. I learned enough vim to get around it, anyway, which is more than I can say for emacs. However, I mcedit in console mode and kwrite in X mode are now what I find myself using most. OTOH.. Back when I first discovered urpmi and did the mass upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2 I think it was, devfs screwed up and I couldn't load most of my partitions, including /usr. All I had was what was on /. vi wouldn't load and I didn't know about vi-minimal. I ended up using sed, as it worked, and there was a chapter covering it in the back of "The Arabian" (Linux in a Nutshell), for me to refer to, in constructing my commands. That worked well enough for me to fix fstab to load the /dev/ide path instead of /dev/hdc#, as I had been doing b4, for /usr, at which point I could mount it, and get access to mc and mcedit again, to fix everything else. -- Duncan "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin