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Unix Editor like Notepad
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| contracer11@gmail.com 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
notepad ?
Where could I get it ?
I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
Thanks.
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| Glyn Millington 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| contracer11@gmail.com writes:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
> Where could I get it ?
> I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
> Thanks.
Nano?
Nedit?
Look 'em up on the web!
It's worth learning at least the basics of Vi though.
atb
Glyn
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| Andre Majorel 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| On 2006-01-19, contracer11@gmail.com <contracer11@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
Midnight Commander includes a nice no-learning-curve editor,
mcedit.
http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/
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André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
It's a good life, bowing to a tyrant.
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| matt_left_coast 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
> Where could I get it ?
> I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
> Thanks.
There are plenty of friendly editors out there, someone else has mentioned a
couple. That said, I would recommend you still learn vi. Why? because vi is
on every system I have ever used and it can be used to fix a system, even
when the GUI is broke.
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| Stephane Chazelas 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| On 19 Jan 2006 07:42:45 -0800, contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
[...]
Probably all the desktop environments have some sort of "text
editor for dummies". CDE has dtpad, KDE has kedit, Gnome has
gedit...
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Stephane
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contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
> Where could I get it ?
> I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
Vim has an 'easy mode' :
alias vim='vim -y'
and `gVim -y' act, by hiding the true power and by pretending
to be lame, just the same way as notepad in GUI.
when you choose a 'friendly' editor, you just give up a
chance to experience an more efficient way of edting text. There
are stuff like "regexp function modeline :linecommand ex map
macro script.vim ..." in vim but you don't have to use them. why
don't you just start with 'gVim -y' and your mouse. And when
do some heavy editing, you should try to figure out if there are
better way to do this with this editor.
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Regards,
hq00e
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| On 2006-01-19, contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
One probably exists, but no one would use it.
There are simple editors like pico and nano, and many
full-featured ones, like emacs and nedit.
> Where could I get it ?
> I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
It's a good idea to know enough of vi to do simple edits, as it's
almost universally available, but I don't recommend it for a
general-purpose editor.
I recomend emacs, because you will never grow out of it, as you
might with nano, for example.
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Chris F.A. Johnson, author | <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
Shell Scripting Recipes: | My code in this post, if any,
A Problem-Solution Approach | is released under the
2005, Apress | GNU General Public Licence
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| Janis Papanagnou 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
| hq00e wrote:
> contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
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You may want to inspect also the newsgroup comp.editors
for additional suggestions.
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Vim has an 'easy mode' :
> alias vim='vim -y'
Funny, I didn't knew that option.
Tried it out from commandline and had problems exiting!
(I think I'll better stay with full-flavoured vim. ;-)
> and `gVim -y' act, by hiding the true power and by pretending
> to be lame, just the same way as notepad in GUI.
Janis
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| William James 2006-01-19, 6:24 pm |
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contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
> Please, could You tell if is there any Unix Editor like Microsoft's
> notepad ?
> Where could I get it ?
> I'd like use a most friendly Editor than vi...
> Thanks.
Vile lets you use a mouse, has the "finger-feel" of vi, and
includes MicroEMACS' macro language.
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| John L 2006-01-20, 6:03 pm |
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"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in message news:hfv4a3-us2.ln1@teksavvy.com...
> On 2006-01-19, contracer11@gmail.com wrote:
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> One probably exists, but no one would use it.
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> There are simple editors like pico and nano, and many
> full-featured ones, like emacs and nedit.
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My experience has been that programmers coming to Unix from
a Windows background found nedit most suitable.
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John.
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