On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 19:42, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > Oh. Good point. That is "the advantage" I spoke of regarding learning > > vi. It isn't going anywhere. But what a shame pico is. We need an ultra > > simple console text editor just like we need ultra simple gui text > > editors like gedit. Like I said, I'm an emacs user but if I just want to > > change one line in a config file at the console I really don't want to > > be bothered firing it up. I'd rather start something tiny and simple. > > (And oh boy I have I just given ammunition to the "Vi is better than > > Emacs" crowd. Can we please not go there?) > > Use joe: > > it's being maintained > it's in the red hat tree for a long time > it's used by alan cox and I wonder if that's why it's in rhl :) > it's 284K total, installed > it has built in keybindings for: > emacs, wordstar and pico. > > run jmacs, jstar or jpico > or just run joe and learn it's bindings. > > it's a great, simple, REALLY lightweight editor. > Hmm, I need to try jpico. Another great editor is GNU Nano. Unfortunately it's not included in Red Hat Linux 9 but there are RFE's filed to include it in future versions. It is a fully-functional workalike of pico, but it's written completely from scratch and is GPLd, so it has none of the license problems of pico itself. Now, we just need a GPL'd pine clone... ;-) --Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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