Editor recommen dations?

[Guy Abandon.]

I've got and tried pico and I never did get it to mark or drop anchor or
whatever to do blocks sensibly.  If Nano is older, it might be less good
than Pico?  I'll have to look for it.  I've heard of VIM and know ELVIS is
hiding here disguised as the original VI I learned at Uni' and long since
forgot again.

I'll see how many more are hiding on here so long as I know what I'm looking
for.

GA!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: "blinux-list" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Editor recommen dations?


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On Wed, Jul 28 2004 at 05:01:46PM +0100, Guy Abandon. wrote:
> Suggest an editor that works like a good DOS editor, such as supports
> normal arrow/page/function keys properly rather than the limited one using
> only control sequences.  I've tried Joe but not even that works reliably;
it
> says F1 for help and does nothing to do with help at all.

If pico works aallright for you you might look at nano. I haven't had
problems
using pgup/pgdn and the arrow keys in pico, nano, emacs, or vim, so maybe
there
is something screwy with your terminal. Are you working directly from the
console or over telnet or a serial console? If the latter then you may need
to
make sure that your terminal emulator is emulating the same thing that linux
is
using.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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