ed is the most standard line editor for all UNIX based systems. vi (pronounced vee eye) or vim are the most common to use and available on allmost all systems, and Emacs is on of the more capable editors, really more like an IDE. Emacs is second in popularity to vim, but often must be installed as a third party application. I had problems using vim on large files. All of my Spanish words with fi in them were missing the fi, so now I only use Emacs for large files. To learn how to use Emacs first open it then type control and h at the same time, release, then press t. These key combinations are called chords. For vim type :help immediately after opening the program. ed is only usefull for situations for when nothing else is available.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:57 AM, OldGrantonian <[email protected]>wrote: > > Based on Peter's responses, I would like to recommend a free text > editor for Windows users, to edit (or simply view) files that are > produced in a UNIX-style environment. > > The editor is EditPad Lite, and is recommended here: > > http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-text-editor.htm > > Despite all its features, EditPad loads at the same speed as Notepad > (which, in turn, is a lot faster than Wordpad). > > When you launch EditPad, there is a "Tip of the Day" window. You > should browse through all the tips. I was amazed at some of the > features, and I'm not normally an amazingable person :) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
