I learned to touch type on something that never had electricity running
through it, a Royal 440 typewriter. I had a little computer exposure
before 1986 but got my first computer in that year and that was a CP/M
machine too. In 1987 due to college study requirements I went over to
the dark side with an IBM XT with a 32mb hard drive. Formal unix
classes started in 1989 when I started working for the Navy and started
using the learn utility on bsd systems. Then in 2001 Windows '98 had to
be reinstalled by me without any sight using a sheet of brailled
instructions every two weeks since a kernel file kept getting corrupted
and that started me on a 1 year long journey with the penguin club of
Southern Maryland to get linux installed and accessible. First time
that happened it was with a copy of redhat 5.0 I bought at Staples.
Unfortunately Staples doesn't sell Linux any more so I minimize my
purchases in those stores.
For those that tried vim and ran into trouble with it, you might try ex
and ex is a line-oriented part of vim with all the power vi part of vim
is a subset of ex. If you knew how to use edlin on dos and liked it
you'll like ex. Another part of vim and this is really good if less
isn't available is view that does much of what less does.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:51:45
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: working with nano
You guys make me feel like a wet behind the ears baby(which feels kind
of weird since people on the Internet usually make me feel like a
fossil). Anyways, in 1990, all I knew about computers was how to suck
at Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 3 on my older sister's NES,
it was 1996 before I learned how to touch type on old Win 3.1 and DOS
machines at school, and my family's first proper PC was a Win98
Machine. I made the switch from WinXP to Ubuntu around Ubuntu 5.10 or
6.06 and then to Debian somewhere around 2010, but prior to my vision
failing in mid-to-late 2012, I did most of my document editing in
graphical editors only occasionally using nano to edit my sources.list
or another config file that requires root privileges. As vision loss
forced me to make heavier use of my terminal knowledge, nano became my
primary editor out of familiarity, though I'll admit it took me a
while to get use to it having different cut, copy, paste behavior from
pretty much every graphical application with a text box I've ever
used. I don't think I've ever tried emacs, but what I've tried of vi
has brought me to the conclusion that, even if it's ultimately a
superior editor, I don't have the time to learn vi well enough to use
it on par with how I already use nano.
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