At 01:39 PM 8/11/2008, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > As for editors, there are several available.  I'm partial to the vi/vim
> > offerings myself.
>
>
>If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I
>would recommend nano over vi/vim any day!  At least with nano you can
>easily figure out how to type a few changes and exit, but with vi/vim
>you have to learn how to think upside down with rags stuffed up your
>nose, and then you have to memorize 100 commands!  Every time I
>accidentally run vim I have to figure out how to open the tutorial so I
>can figure out how to exit the thing without killing the terminal.  Then
>I forget the commands before I run it next time :-)  Enough of that rant
>though...
>
>The easiest editor for most people will probably just be gedit aka "Text
>Editor" in the Accessories menu.
>
>Moses

Heh, do like the rest of us did, way back when.  Type out a cheat 
sheet with all the usual commands on it.  In vi of course...  ;-)

Makr 


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