editing files

editing files

[Glenn at home]

What is a stock program for editing text files?
I have used the command
less
for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference 
to editing files.
edit does not work.
Thanks for any help
BTW, this is debian
Glenn

Re: editing files

[Igor Gueths]

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There are many to choose from. Vi, Ed, Nano, Pico, etc...If you want to 
try some, I'd suggest Vi/Nano.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:01:28PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote:
> What is a stock program for editing text files?
> I have used the command
> less
> for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference 
> to editing files.
> edit does not work.
> Thanks for any help
> BTW, this is debian
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: editing files

[Janina Sajka]

You have several text editors available. The two powerhouse choices are
emacs and vim. You'll probably want to get with one of these two
eventually.

A lighter weight alternative that's much easier to get up to speed with,
and that also works quite well with speech, is nano. If you ever used
pine for email, you'll feel right at home with nano.

I think these are the top choices, though there are certainly other
editors available.

Glenn at home writes:
> What is a stock program for editing text files?
> I have used the command
> less
> for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference 
> to editing files.
> edit does not work.
> Thanks for any help
> BTW, this is debian
> Glenn
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina@freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.

Re: editing files

[David Bruzos]

I agree:
If you want easy, use nano (I love nano).  If you want power use vi/emacs.

I am a newbie myself and I use nano very very much.  I even use it in Windows via cygwin!  When I use Windows (that is), 
which has become a rare occurance.

David B.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:57:09PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> You have several text editors available. The two powerhouse choices are
> emacs and vim. You'll probably want to get with one of these two
> eventually.
> 
> A lighter weight alternative that's much easier to get up to speed with,
> and that also works quite well with speech, is nano. If you ever used
> pine for email, you'll feel right at home with nano.
> 
> I think these are the top choices, though there are certainly other
> editors available.
> 
> Glenn at home writes:
> > What is a stock program for editing text files?
> > I have used the command
> > less
> > for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference 
> > to editing files.
> > edit does not work.
> > Thanks for any help
> > BTW, this is debian
> > Glenn
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Chair
> 				Accessibility Workgroup
> 				Free Standards Group (FSG)
> 
> janina@freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> 
> If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: editing files

[Lorenzo Prince]

A Debian base system should come with nano, which is a really good editor and
works quite well with Speakup.

PRINCE

re: editing files

[Jude DaShiell]

A real simple editor to use in Linux is ed, and if you want all the power 
of vim and want a line-oriented environment by default, just start it up 
but run the command ex which is one of its aliases.  If you start with ed, 
ed will be a subset of vi, and vi is a subset of ex or at least it was 
about 14 years ago according to unix tutorial material I was using at that 
time.