Ahhh......... I'll never give up my mouse for desktop work, not until
everyone in Linux gets together and decides "whats what". At the risk of
starting a flame attack I'll say Macintosh, if nothing else, did and does,
one thing right. They call it the "User Interface Guidline". CMD P is
CMD P, everywhere....................
On a Mac CMD S saves no matter what application you are in. Windows,
buttons, dialogs, keybindings, are common, learn one piece of software and
you can learn another in minutes. It is like this for the vast majority of
Mac software.
I wish Linux was the same. I'd learn another editor besides Jed, but I'd
have a gazillion different keystrokes for each editor to try and memorize
before I could become productive. I've been told I can change the Key
mapping in Emacs and Jed but I've not found out how, yet.
But since my Linux box is a server I have removed X, I haven't used it
lately except for tar and zip, now I telnet in when needed. I think more
newcomers to linux would be comfortable in the command line if they knew
how to use it. There is a real loss of good CL information out there, I
just found out about pipes, I still don't know what they are for, just that
some things use them, and what about these?
more
cat
>
printenvr
ls -l /foo/bar (thats a neat one I discovered by accident!)
tail
head
just to name a few, I'm sure there are more.
All these things are cool and useful, we new guys just don't know about
them. A good current starter tutorial (seen the dates on some of the
How-To's ?) would be a God send, almost as helpful as mail list's. ;^)
I'm getting used to it, and the more comfortable I get the more I like the
command line for admin work, straight and simple.
DAve.
"On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at
the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting -- died"
