On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:39:25AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I noted some people saying they were confused by vi. Here are basic > instructions to get you far enough that you can install your editor of > choice.
All that you need to deal with vi is: Alt-F2 (possibly Ctrl-Alt-F2) killall -9 vi Then, you can use cat to display a file's contents, and sed or echo >> to edit needed files (typically /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/network/interfaces) enough to let you apt-get install an usable editor. This is not as painful with nano, as despite being a bad editor, at least it's not grossly counterintuitive. Basics like navigating with cursor keys, typing and deleting with backspace work. It's vi which is the only editor I know to fail -- for crying out loud, even notepad.exe manages! vi might be an editor of choice for quite some folks, but it's singularingly inappropriate for a default only editor. -- ⢎⣉⠂⠠⠤⡀⣄⠤⡀⠠⡅⠀⠤⡧⠄⡄⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠠⡅⠀⡠⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⢴⠍⠀⡠⠤⡀⣄⠤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠤⡧⠄⣇⠤⡀⡠⠤⡀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⡄⡠⠤⡀⠠⠤⡀⡇⡠⠄⠀⠀⠀ ⠢⠤⠃⠪⠭⠇⠇⠀⠇⠀⠣⠀⠀⠣⠄⠨⠭⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⠀⠬⠭⠂⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠣⠤⠃⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠣⠄⠇⠀⠇⠫⠭⠁⠀⠀⠀⠣⠣⠃⠫⠭⠁⠪⠭⠇⠏⠢⠄⠀⠄⠀ (https://github.com/kilobyte/braillefont for this hack) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
