editing files

[David Bruzos]

I agree:
If you want easy, use nano (I love nano).  If you want power use vi/emacs.

I am a newbie myself and I use nano very very much.  I even use it in Windows via cygwin!  When I use Windows (that is), 
which has become a rare occurance.

David B.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:57:09PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> You have several text editors available. The two powerhouse choices are
> emacs and vim. You'll probably want to get with one of these two
> eventually.
> 
> A lighter weight alternative that's much easier to get up to speed with,
> and that also works quite well with speech, is nano. If you ever used
> pine for email, you'll feel right at home with nano.
> 
> I think these are the top choices, though there are certainly other
> editors available.
> 
> Glenn at home writes:
> > What is a stock program for editing text files?
> > I have used the command
> > less
> > for viewing a file, and I have been reading, but have not found a reference 
> > to editing files.
> > edit does not work.
> > Thanks for any help
> > BTW, this is debian
> > Glenn
> > 
> > 
> > 
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