On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 22:40, Jan Wilson wrote: <snip> > Many people use less than 1% of the capabilities of a text editor. > I have seen people who noticed they left out a word at the beginning > of the paragraph, and backspaced over the whole paragraph to add the > word, then typed the rest of the paragraph again. For folks like > these, the simplest text editor would be overkill. <snip>
[this bit is slightly OT] hehe... reminds me of the first time I used a PC - took a 12-month Computing & Admin course 5 yrs ago. My first day: The tutor sat me in front of a computer, gave me an A4 sheet of paper with a story on it, said "There you go", walked off and left me sitting there like a dummy. I noticed that others in the class were all typing so I gathered I was supposed type the story. Well, *THREE* times I got near the bottom of the page, noticed an error near the beginning, and backspaced the whole lot off back to the error! before asking the person next to me if there was a way of fixing the error without starting all over again!!! "Yep, just use the mouse." "What, this thing?" "Yep" I sat there for a minute or more pressing the mouse buttons. "Nothings happening" "You have to *move* the mouse" Cripes! I got a helluva fright when the mouse pointer moved. But then I was the first person in 8 yrs to complete the course in less than 3 months so I didn't feel like such a dummy after a while. And now I've "advanced" to using a Linux OS and I love VIM. [more ON TOPIC] As Benjamin pointed out: "if only one editor is installed (e.g. on a minimal server), it will be vi.". So it makes sense to learn the basic vi/vim commands. Having said that, Gentoo Linux only has nano but I didn't find that too hard to handle because the commands are written at the bottom of the screen like in mc. Sharrea -- Why on earth do people buy old bottles of wine when they can get a fresh one for a quarter of the price? ------------------ Mandrake Linux 9.0
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