Re: how do I edit my XF86Config file while in runlevel 3?

["Shane C Branch" <scbranch barton edu>]

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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.