[juneau-lug] Re: Editors

  • From: Talley family <talleys@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:39:19 -0900

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....

For that reason I think a student should learn vi.

Eat it, its good for you.

Larry

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> Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Editors
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> 
> Eric M. Niewoehner wrote:
> > I am about to teach a section on editors and I was curious 
> as to which
> > text editor you all preferred.  While I am on my local 
> workstation, I 
> > always use the GUI, but shell sessions require a plain-text 
> editor.  The 
> > author of the text I am using is keen on vi.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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...
> 
> ...Kevin
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> Kevin Miller
> http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
> Juneau, Alaska
> Registered Linux User No: 307357
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