There is a text editor. THE text editor, by some reckoning :-D (it was the very first unix text editor, vi's command mode: ex is modeled on this.) I use it for very quick things, it's like sed but interactive. You're going to have to read about it a bit, this is the opposite of intuitive. However, it is the simplest text editor of all time. You need to learn a few simple commands to get started. The first and most important is q for quit.
Erik Johnson On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Ryan McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just in text editor hell. Network access was down to to our Linux > guest so I loaded up x3270 and was able to get to the host. I needed to > make a simple edit to a text file when I realized vi doesn't work. DOH! > > Is there an alternative to vi? I was having to echo text into files, grep > -v, etc. etc. > > Thanks.. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
