You have several text editors available. The two powerhouse choices are emacs and vim. You'll probably want to get with one of these two eventually. A lighter weight alternative that's much easier to get up to speed with, and that also works quite well with speech, is nano. If you ever used pine for email, you'll feel right at home with nano. I think these are the top choices, though there are certainly other editors available. Glenn at home writes: > What is a stock program for editing text files? > I have used the command > less > for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference > to editing files. > edit does not work. > Thanks for any help > BTW, this is debian > Glenn > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.