Have you had a look on "joe", a WordStar like editor? I use it for everything.
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Andre' Blanchard wrote: | I have been working with EMC2 Live that I installed not long ago, and I | need a better text editor. | I have been trying to get used to vim but that thing requires a lot of | typing just to do simple things like split a window. I would like to be | able to be typing along and decide I want to split the window and just hit | a function key followed by a cursor key to specify horizontal or vertical | and which side of the new boarder to put the cursor. Same with moving a | boarder function key, cursor to select the boarder to move and keep hitting | the cursor keys to move it then just enter to get back to editing. And | splitting the current window should not affect the size of the other | windows, just put a boarder thru the center. | Simple and accurate keystroke recording and playback would be a plus. If | you ever used Brief 3.1 from DOS that's what I am after. | | The help files for vim seem to indicate a gvim may exist someplace, I get | an error does not exist. I assume it has some use for a mouse and basic | things like loading a file without having to type a 200 character path and | file name. | Found this today, but which one or do I need all of them, and will they | install and run on the Live installation or will I need to download other | packages. | <http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/virtual/gvim>http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/virtual/gvim | | Is it just me or has the idea that a computer may exist without a web | connection never occurred to most of the Linux community? :) | | Thanks, | ___________ | Andre' B. | __________ | Andre' B. Clear Lake, Wi. | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express | Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take | control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. | http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ | _______________________________________________ | Emc-users mailing list | Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users | mfg Ing. Rainer Hantsch -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------. | \\|// Ing. Rainer HANTSCH - Hardware + Software | | (o o) Service - Support - WEB-Design und Programmierung | |--oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------------------------------------------------| | Ing. Rainer HANTSCH | mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Khunngasse 21/20 | www: http://www.hantsch.co.at | | A-1030 Vienna | tel: +43-1-79885380 fax: +43-1-798853818 | | ** A u s t r i a ** | handy: +43-664-9194382 UID-Nr: ATU 11134002 | '---------------------------------------------------------------------' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
