From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cjrx2-0001ti-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:30:16 -0500 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (jdashiel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iBU4UF5T090245 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:30:15 GMT (envelope-from jdashiel@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (jdashiel@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id iBU4UFbZ090241 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:30:15 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: jdashiel owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:30:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: re: editing files X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:30:16 -0000 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.