[H-GEN] ae ???

[Sandra Milne]

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At 12:15 9/04/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>All that said, Sandra , can you do us all 'show' on nano and pico, so we
>can compare them to aee?
>And - are nano & pico on RH7.1 distro? I'm pretty sure I remember you
>saying that you used RH.
>I have really been struggling to master vi. There just seem to be so
>many little twists to learn.
>Sorry, I can't do it as I'm on a machine with one of those other types
>of o/s - because sheer ineptitude on my part does not yet allow me to
>work seriously [vis earn a miserable crust] with Linux, yet [but that
>day will come, I know]


I must've wandered off and lost the conversation somewhere, because i have 
no idea what you mean by 'show' ???
Pico is on the redhat install disks. I assume you can get an rpm of nano, 
but i tend to just use pico because it's in the default installation (iirc, 
haven't used dedrat since 6.2... not seriously anyway). nano is for debian 
et al users who like pico (sacrilege i hear you cry!) and want something 
that is licensed under GPL (hooray!)

If you don't want to learn vi, i say don't learn it. I use it once in a 
blue moon to edit my apt sources by hand so that I can get nano. I am not 
one of those people who feels it is necessary to torture myself learning 
obscure commands for an editor that I won't use more than once every few 
months. (Yes I'm lazy... once the machine is set up, the config files don't 
get touched very often unless something dire happens)

In any case, I've lost my train of thought (choochoo there it goes!) and so 
I'll stop wasting everyone's time. (My brain's been soggy since lunch... 
working on a helpdesk is murder when something goes wrong)

Sandra.

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