[juneau-lug] Re: Editors

I like nano.  It was a free as in speech rewrite of pico.  But Larry is 
probably right.  Vi is almost a standard on *nix machines.  That being 
said my favorite GUI text editor is nedit.

Talley family wrote:

>But if you are bouncing around on different Linux/Unix hosts,
>seems to me that vi or ed are the only things you can count
>on finding....
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>For that reason I think a student should learn vi.
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>Eat it, its good for you.
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>Larry
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>>[mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:10 PM
>>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Editors
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>>Eric M. Niewoehner wrote:
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>>>I am about to teach a section on editors and I was curious 
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>>as to which
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>>>text editor you all preferred.  While I am on my local 
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>>workstation, I 
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>>>always use the GUI, but shell sessions require a plain-text 
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>>editor.  The 
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>>>author of the text I am using is keen on vi.
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>>If I'm in KDE I usually use Kate.  If at the CLI, I like the midnight 
>>commander editor (if mc is installed).  Otherwise I flip/flop 
>>between vi 
>>and pico.  Not overly fluent in vi, and not overly impressed 
>>with pico.
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>>Way back in the DOS days I used to use an editor called TED (Tiny 
>>EDitor) which was a PC Mag. utility.  Small, fast, and beat the pants 
>>off edlin.  The mc editor is similar.  Best thing since sliced beer. 
>>Um, bottled bread.  Er, whatever.
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>>If I'm doing more than just a quick edit of a .conf file the 
>>color and 
>>nesting in Kate is quite handy.  Don't do much scripting or 
>>programming 
>>so my needs are pretty humble...
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>>...Kevin
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>>Kevin Miller
>>http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
>>Juneau, Alaska
>>Registered Linux User No: 307357
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