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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
