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Fr3d
08-25-2006, 04:38 PM
I prefer nano, but I was wondering what everyone else prefers.

Please try not to flame :p :)

IWorx-Socheat
08-25-2006, 04:47 PM
vim for me :)

NEXCESS.NET (Greg)
08-25-2006, 04:51 PM
Some people call me "VI" but you dunno me!

EverythingWeb
08-25-2006, 05:39 PM
Always used to be pico on Suse many years ago. Now its nano one of the first things I do when setting a box up is to symlink pico command to nano

Saves so much hassle ;)

tiger
08-25-2006, 08:38 PM
I only know about VI (of course not advanced/all commands ;) )
A problem with vi is, when you forget that it is in cmd mode and start typing text ;)

Is there any text editor in Linux/Unix that has almost similar commands as in Windows?
(e.g, Ctrl+C for copy, Ctrl+V for paste, SHIFT+navigation for selection, etc)

Of course I have voted for Vi/Vim

EverythingWeb
08-26-2006, 02:58 AM
Pico/Nano has similar functions tiger:

Ctrl+W = Find
Copying is achieved by highlighting and clicking where you want selection pasting.
http://www.hmug.org/man/1/nano.php

Justec
08-26-2006, 07:17 PM
I've only used pico and vi(m). I thought pico was okay back on unix stuff in college but I only use vim now for linux.

sliqua
09-02-2006, 09:50 PM
Always used to be pico on Suse many years ago. Now its nano one of the first things I do when setting a box up is to symlink pico command to nano

Saves so much hassle ;)

I do the same, typing pico is a bad habit of mine from using it ages ago. I prefer pico/nano over vim and the others because "it just works", people complain about line breaks and stuff, but that doesn't happen if you run 'pico -w' or 'nano -w' =/