Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, April 06, 2000, 11:30:20 PM, Damon wrote: > him sit down and practice, and now both our lives are a lot easier (vi, > over the phone, is even less fun than vi in person!). Yeah, but in what other editor can you say "ou812" and have it be legal? :) -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
>I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following > written instructions to edit a couple of config files. Has anyone any >

[OT] Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-05 Thread Brad
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:59:27PM +0100, John Gould wrote: > Hello everyone, >I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be follow

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Christopher Judd
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Gould wrote: > > Hello everyone, >I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following > written in

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Kent West
John Gould wrote: > Hello everyone, >I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following > written instructions to edit a coup

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread sam
Use pico, it has the same layout as pine and all the keystokes are listed at the bottom of the screen at all times. I you run pico -m it enables mouse support. ~Sam On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Gould wrote: > Hello everyone, >I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that wor

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello John, On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Gould wrote: > Hello everyone, >I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works > within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer > literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following > wr

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Christian Surchi
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 02:29:33PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Some options are: > > * pico - used to be included with pine, I think it's available seperately > now. Use nano, free and pine-independent. :) > * joe - a mixture of Wordstar- and Emacs-compatible keystrokes... joe is

Re: Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, John Gould writes: > Ease of use is much more important > than editing power, hence the requirement to not use vi or vim. > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Some options are: * pico - used to be included with pine, I think it's available seperately now. * joe - a mixture of Wo

Simple text screen editor

2000-04-04 Thread John Gould
Hello everyone, I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following written instructions to edit a couple of config files. Has anyon