I agree: If you want easy, use nano (I love nano). If you want power use vi/emacs. I am a newbie myself and I use nano very very much. I even use it in Windows via cygwin! When I use Windows (that is), which has become a rare occurance. David B. On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:57:09PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
