Re: VIM Versus Nano

[Luke Davis <ldavis shellworld net>]

Nano is quite similar, although better in all but one respect(s), to pico.
Thus,  pressing control W for search, and then either control V, or
control Y,  will get you to the end, or beginning, respectively.


On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> It turns out that a minimal version of VIM, called VI6.0z was installed.
> It seems to work.
> I've been using Gnu Nano for a while, and after looking at VI I couldn't
> see how it would be any better. In fact, nano is simpler and more
> intuitive. The only thing it lacks is a way to go to the beginning and end
> of a file without doing a lot of page up or page down keystrokes.
> I am using Redhat 7.1. It apparently came without VIM, though there was a
> VI.
> John
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