On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 16:59 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:34, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > :q! > > > > The only one I need (and want) to know > So you must be mute? > > Surely you must need these as a minimum? > > a > Here is the Content > <ESC> > ZZ > > Difficult eh? >
Not difficult, but definitely non-intuitive. Even gentoo, that more awkward of distros to install and configure, promotes nano as its default editor! I find myself using midnight commander's built in editor (mcedit if you want to invoke it outside the mc shell, F4 from within the shell) to be my most used editor, probably because I found mc early in my linux adventures, (before I even got X going) and have stuck with it. It probably isn't what a programmer would call a power editor, but it certainly has done me well over the years. For ages I never knew how to even get out of vi and often had to kill it from another console if I inadvertently invoked it. It also took me ages to realise that *nix users aren't always being literal, and that instructions like: vi /etc/passwd didn't actually mean you had to master vi, they just meant "use your favourite editor to make the following changes to /etc/passwd"
