I'd have to second everything Robert stated here. The O'Reilly books, which consume lots of real estate on my own bookshelves (from programming topics like C and Perl through Regular Expressions, sed/awk, vi...to Firewalls, Unix security and more), are worth every penny. At least the "classics" that are now in 3rd and 4th editions...some newer titles I'm a bit more skeptical of.
Anywho, for editors, my favorite is actually vi. I hated it with a passion when I first started in Unix years ago, but decided I wasn't going to let a two letter command get the best of me, so I read, re-read, and re-re-read the man pages over and over again (til I found the O'Reilly book on Learning the vi Editor). You can be assured that vi and its counterpart, ed, will be on pretty much any Unix flavored system on the planet at this point. The same cannot be said of any other editor. Thanks, Bill Joy! That said, if you really, really, want an alternative, I'd go with nano/pico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi --- Mark Boltz, CISSP Sr. Solutions Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonesoft.com Toll Free: 1.866.869.4075 Cell: 1.571.218.2481 Fax: 1.703.288.4811 8133 Leesburg Pike, Suite 610 Vienna, VA 22182-2730 USA Subscribe to a Webletter on Trends in Network Security at http://www.stonesoft.com/network_security/ RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> To Sent by: Linux on [email protected] 390 Port cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Subject Re: full screen editor and SSH 02/21/2007 08:49 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU> Don¹t laugh so hard... Sed has saved my rear many times when my only access to a barely running penguin was through the 3270 virtual terminal. Learn enough sed so that you aren¹t caught sitting dumb-founded at the terminal when your guest doesn¹t come up because you left some critical option (or character) out of one of many various innocent-looking config files. btw: To this end, O¹Reilly has a whole series of ³Pocket Reference² guides to various Unix-y things, including ³sed & awk Pocket Reference² and ³vi Editor Pocket Reference², both by Arnold Robbins. These are very good reference guides when you know what you want to do, you know that sed knows how to do it, but you can¹t remember just which incantation will get sed to do it. These are great tools, easily overlooked among all the larger IT books on the shelf, but whenever I see one that covers something I use (Perl, Regular Expressions, PHP, Mac Tiger, CSS, HTML....) I get it and keep it close. They take up about five inches on my bookshelf, but it¹s a very important five inches. :-) -- .~. Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\ RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW / ( ) \ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > From: Tom Shilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You *could* learn sed instead <evil grin> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
