[H-GEN] Simple Linux editors

[Greg Black]

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"doug rickard" wrote:

| I am not a sysadmin, nor
| do I have any interest in becoming one.

Fair enough.  In that case, much of what I wrote is possibly not
applicable to you.

| editors will be compared with their Microsoft equivalents.

Not by anybody who was paying attention.  I did not suggest that
people should use ed to write their thesis (although many people
have done that quite successfully and happily).  I was talking
about a specific situation, which I spelt out in some detail.

I certainly don't use ed for everything.  At least 99% of the
material I write is written with Emacs, as is this message.  But
I use ed nearly every day, from choice.

| 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.

Than you have a solution that works for you.  Why not just use
it?

| 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?

I still think ed is the answer here.  I could teach anybody who
wanted to learn ed enough to perform the tasks I enumerated in
an earlier message in about half an hour.

A little bit of practice and you'd be set for life.  If that's
too big an investment of time, then it would probably be better
to stick to the methods you have already discovered.

Greg

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