Re: text editors

[Wayne Sallee]

I use vim. Log in as user that will use vim, and run the following command: cat > .vimrc << "EOF" set nosi noai set number   EOF Now when you use vim, there will be a line number at the beginning of every line. Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com http://www.WayneSallee.com -------- Original Message -------- *Subject: *  text editors *From: *     Mick Crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> *To: *        Debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> *Date: *      2019-3-25  12:38 AM Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to protect lines in the document, not the document itself ? I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the wrong one and then it doesn't work. mick