I've got and tried pico and I never did get it to mark or drop anchor or whatever to do blocks sensibly. If Nano is older, it might be less good than Pico? I'll have to look for it. I've heard of VIM and know ELVIS is hiding here disguised as the original VI I learned at Uni' and long since forgot again. I'll see how many more are hiding on here so long as I know what I'm looking for. GA! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "blinux-list" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Editor recommen dations? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 28 2004 at 05:01:46PM +0100, Guy Abandon. wrote: > Suggest an editor that works like a good DOS editor, such as supports > normal arrow/page/function keys properly rather than the limited one using > only control sequences. I've tried Joe but not even that works reliably; it > says F1 for help and does nothing to do with help at all. If pico works aallright for you you might look at nano. I haven't had problems using pgup/pgdn and the arrow keys in pico, nano, emacs, or vim, so maybe there is something screwy with your terminal. Are you working directly from the console or over telnet or a serial console? If the latter then you may need to make sure that your terminal emulator is emulating the same thing that linux is using. - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBB9bU5JK61UXLur0RAtM9AJ9opuXjuH8OWfe0LfKe2LNqN8v7kACZASpN 6YRGq2VoJdXtPKMO+AnV/FM= =az8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list