*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/1/2003 at 2:03 PM Jeremy Portzer wrote: >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 > >-- Is anyone using jedit on linux? I use it on my windows installations, but haven't gotten around to trying it on linux it. Still fighting the apache install.... regards, shane.
