Joey Kelly wrote: >>I should not have to read a manpage to figure out how to use an editor. >> >> > >Perhaps not, but can you do text replacement keyed off of regular expressions >in pico/nano? Execute a shell command (such as running the script you're >writing) from within the editor? Is nano installed by default on every *nix >box? > > Don't know, don't know, and don't know. Both Ubuntu and Gentoo, my distro's of choice, use it as their preferred editor. I find it interesting that instead of replying to my main reason for not using vi, you replied with features it has that aren't even necessary for basic text editing.
vi doesn't come by default on gentoo, either. >I used pico for years and years, even after I became a sysadmin, but made the >switch back in 2001. I spent one torturous week trying to learn the basic >commands in vim > Glutton for punishment? :) >, and tried to go back to pico at the end of the week, but >found I simply couldn't go back to such a useless editor. I stuck with vim >and haven't looked back since. > > Your post is the essence of Linux elitism. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
