On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 05:31 -0700, Duncan wrote:
> (A side note here.  I do much of my sysconfig work using midnight
> commander, aka mc, the two-pane file manager, with included file
> viewer
> and file editor.  Some reading will nodoubt find it very helpful, if
> they've not discovered it already.  emerge mc, then invoke it with the
> mc
> command.  I have my system EDITOR var set to mcedit as well, use it
> for
> my etc-update editor, and have aliases e and v set to mcedit and
> mcview,
> respectively.  It works equally well in a virtual console outside X,
> and
> in xterm/gterm/konsole/etc.)

        mc is the way I learned Linux.. Used Norton Commander in DOS, then the
clone in OS/2, and found it a very useful tool in learning Linux.. mc
should be part of system IMO ;) Though, I prefer vi for text editing
now, I still use mc for a lot of file operations.

-- 
Homer Parker
Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Operational Lead
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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