On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:32, Damon Register wrote:
Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value (although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi.
If there is any possibiltiy that you will be called on to maintain any *x system at all, you can bet a lot of them do not have nedit, joe, pico, jed, emacs or many of the others. You _can_ expect to find vi, ed and sed. vi is light-weight and designed to be used over slow links. ed is pretty similar, but lacks the visual element. sed is strictly batch-oriented. _I_ regularly do system maintenance by dialup, and no GUI is especially useful at the other end of a modem. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org