Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
>
> * vi - a full-screen ed, more powerful than DOS's EDIT, but
> uglier and more mystifying. This is my preferred editor, but
> I won't enter into any holy ways unless I see someone come up
> with 'stay away from vi, it is the root of all evil!'
OK, I'll bite. Stay away from vi.
> * pico - probably on either the default or as an option in
> most distros. From what I remember of it, sort of DOSish, but
> not too nice.
Pico is MUCH easier to use than vi. Highly recommended for
newbies. If your distro installs Pine (one of the standard
mail readers) then you will automatically have pico. Set
EDITOR="pico" and alias edit='pico' for carefree editing in
all situations.
As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution which doesn't
come with pico as standard. However, Debian defaults to the
ae editor, which is another marvellously easy editor, ideal
for newbies. In my book, this makes Debian much more newbie-
friendly than all the pedantic distros which default to vi.
> Knowing vi (or at least the basics of vi) is something that'll
> come in handy again and again and again. As it's on nearly
> every system,
Not on my systems.
del vi is nearly as satisfying as deltree windows
(and, yes, alias del='rm -i')
Cheers,
Steven
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