Richard Forth wrote: > oh right because theres others like emacs as well. I guess it would > hurt to learn either? Just Vi only has two letters and the only one i > can remember LOL
There are more text editors than you could shake a stick at! Personally I tend to use joe (which is not a default install but one I've got used to over the years); nano is probably easier for most people and generally installed by default. There's little good reason to use a terminal based text editor from a terminal window within the gui, though (try "gedit <filename>" from the terminal window in Ubuntu, or "kate <filename>" (I guess) in Kubuntu). Those of us that spend a lot of our time administering systems via SSH have good reason to get the hang of terminal based editors (and tend to use them from terminals within the GUI as well through habit). I do think there's good reason for people to be exposed to the commandline, but not to be scared by it or expect to use it very often. I use the commandline in Windows a lot too (although less than in Linux simply because it can do so much less!) I'd be more interested in building up a list of ways to do the same things from the commandline and the GUI, not least because the habit of people like me to drop to the commandline because its what we know can intimidate people who are uncomfortable there, and give them the impression that its how you *have* to do things, rather than a choice. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
