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Simple question .. used to Pico on Redhat .. but it's not available on
Debian ..

Does anybody know a simple built in text based editor on Debian?
I gotta edit some config files but don't know what I can use.

Thanx guys

Is "vi" installed?

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Isn't there a package to install?  Or compile and install
it from source.

Quote:> Does anybody know a simple built in text based editor on
> Debian?  I gotta edit some config files but don't know
> what I can use.

ed, of course (modulo various definitions of "simple" :-)

vi is the "standard" UNIX/Linux editor.

hth
t
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vi is not simple at all :(

Quote:Satvic writes:
> Simple question .. used to Pico on Redhat .. but it's not available on
> Debian ..

toncho/~ apt-cache search pico
e3 - A very small editor
joe - user friendly full screen text editor
nano - free Pico clone with some new features
nano-tiny - free Pico clone with some new features - tiny build
nano-tiny-utf8 - free Pico clone with some new features - tiny build with utf8

Quote:> Does anybody know a simple built in text based editor on Debian?

"Built in"?  I don't understand what you mean by that.

Quote:> I gotta edit some config files but don't know what I can use.

Try 'editor'.
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Because it isn't free.  However, Debian does have nano, a free Pico
clone, according to apt-cache search.
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Quote:> vi is not simple at all :(

vi may not be simple, but is everywhere.

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well redhat is bad 4 people . .it makes them robots....

how on earth did u come to a debian from a rethat box..... One is the
hardest to configure and the other the easiest one....(its does it
automatically).

vi is the best ....just learn the basics...

r - replace
dd/dw del word/line
/  /find
:w
:q!
:q

U can do everything with only using those commands

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The man's right.  You've got to be able to do some minimal
editing with vi.  Someday you'll have to. Really.  Assuming the
arrow keys work, you only need to learn 3 commands: x,i,<esc>:wq

Once you can do that much you can always grit your teeth and
use vi to get to the point where you can run whatever editor
you prefer.

Or, you can learn "ed", it's always there too.  I've got a
friend who's a whiz with ed: it's an amazing thing to watch.

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Oh, no.  You gotta have the most importantest one,-- :q!

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Yup, that's pretty handy to know, though I've always found that
"ctrl-Z" followed by "kill %1" works OK.

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LOL,

When you right YOU'RE RIGHT!

I just spend 2 hours learning and practicing vi ...  it's a *, but it
does the job.
I am more used to programming with Visual basic where it helps me remember
properties etc..

vi is a dinosaur age thing :))

Thanx guys.

For a simple, comprehensive tutorial check this out:
http://www.veryComputer.com/~taylor/4ltrwrd/Vi.html

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LOL,

I am Windows sys admin and asp developer .. so I decided to learn Linux ( or
at least start ) cause I have a few friends back in Russia who won't use
anything else. So I am doing Linux certification course .. (everything worth
doing - is worth doing right).  I paid for the course cause there is one of
the is a Linux Guru available each day. Most of Linux user in the world are
users of Mandrake and RedHat ... right now I am doing a chapter on
Installing other distributions .. so I decided to mess around with Debian. I
figure if I manage to set it up and running .. I can handle any distr. after
that :))

So far I got network configured. .. but X windows is a * on Debian
:((   wish me luck

S

Actually, all joking aside, vi is one Hell of an editor.

Mind you that is from someone who simply detests it.  I'm
an Emacs bigot from here to there.

But the simple facts are that some people are more confortable
with the mode style and the command style of vi than they are
with Emacs.  For some of us it is the opposite.  And there are
people that aren't really bothered by either, and can use both.

I would *highly* suggest that you learn enough of both vi and
Emacs to decide realistically which one is easier for _you_ to
use, and then that you set out to learn it from one end to the
other.  (And trust that it will take *many* moons to become
actually proficient at either of them.)

Sit down with a tutorial, and *try* every command. Make up a
crib sheet and keep in handy.  *Use* new commands regularly.

When you get to the point where 99% of what you do with an
editor just happens, without the slightest thought to how it
can be done, you'll be damned glad you are using either vi or
emacs instead of any other editor, because 1/4 of what you do,
they can't (except with Emacs, the others can't do 1/2 what it
can ;-).

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Use the vimtutor program. It got me going in vim in under an hour. Just run
"vimtutor" (without the quotes) on a command line, and it will execute.
Good luck!

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