Linux text editors

Timothy Payne tim at tmpco.com
Tue Sep 14 13:57:31 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:34, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> It heavily depends on your needs.
> 
> * vi, vim and gvim are quite good for everyday administration, and if 
> you are a sysadmin you definitely have to know how to use them, because 
> they most likely would be the only kind of editor available on a rescue 
> CD or in single user mode;
> 
<snip>

I hate to use vi because I'm lazy and haven't forced myself to use it
enough.  But I have found several "vi cheat sheets" on the web that I
keep next to my monitor.  But it really is a must have, it ain't pretty
but it may be your last hope.

Tim...





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