[H-GEN] Simple Linux editors

[robert stanford]

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Damn my laptops touchpad, thumb keeps doing things i dont want (like
hitting send before i finish typing).

Anyhow

If you want a simple editor that requires minimal brain effort then your
best 2 options are either ae (Anthony's Editor) or pico. Pico is
probably the easiest of the 2 as help is built in.

Robert Stanford


On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 20:02, doug rickard wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>
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> <snip>
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> > the manual.  For that reason, I use ed every day -- to ensure my
> > skills don't rust but also because it's often the ideal tool.
> >
> > Of course, I also use vi a few times a week to keep my hand in,
> > but skills with vi are of much less concern to me.
> 
> And that is exactly why neither of those editors appeal to me. I have to
> edit files each time we upgrade Red Hat. That is not all that often. If the
> editor is not WYSIWYG then it is of no use to me. I am not a sysadmin, nor
> do I have any interest in becoming one. I have other things to do in life.
> Being able to edit a configuration file when Red Hat upgrades is all I want
> to do. An editor that I have to use every day to remember its
> idiotsyncrasies is useless to me. We live in the 21st century, and like it
> or not editors will be compared with their Microsoft equivalents. At present
> it is quicker for me to ftp a config file from the Linux box to a Windows
> box, edit the file using a Windows editor, then ftp the file back again.
> That way I never even need a console monitor on the Linux box, one less
> thing to go wrong. My needs are simple compared with a sysadmins, so is the
> time I am prepared to put into learning an editor I will use perhaps twice a
> year. Can you recommend an editor that will satisfy those simple
> requirements?
> 
> Doug.
> 
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