> > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: jon+debian-u...@alcopop.org >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking >Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:44:56 +0100 > >>On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >>> 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive >>> than Ctrl-V. >> >>That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I >>am a UNIX systems administrator); most of the time my vi is >>actually vim; but I wouldn't for a second recommend it to >>anyone who was not already familiar with the original vi (or >>any other modal editor: I can't name any others). >> >>Just about anyone who isn't an old-hand UNIX user will have >>some familiarity with a modeless editor and will have used >>an environment where CTRL+V is the key binding for 'paste', >>as it's been the default for over 10 years in GNOME, KDE, >>Mac OS, and Windows, to name but four. >> >>Nano is a perfectly fine, minimal-featured modeless editor. >>It was written as a F/OSS clone of 'pico', which is not DFSG >>free. It is considerably more intuitive and user friendly to >>the vast majority of people who are new to Debian or Linux >>(and thus are not already affiliated with any particular >>church or cult of $EDITOR). See >><http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.1/faq.html#1.4> for more >>information. >> >>-- >>Jon Dowland >> +1. I teach C in a Debian environment and my students (most of whom have never used *nix) use nano. Larry
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