im allergic to vi help me

[McBunny]

i want a text editor for linux (ubuntu gutsy gibbon) thats better than vi as i can never remember the commands as i use it so infrequently.

something along the lines of wordstar for dos if anyone remembers it or just something where i dont need to use commands to just insert a fricking letter or another one to change one letter etc so semi graphical (no gui installed) doesnt need mouse though

anyone ?

 

[sn00p]

ee

 

[McBunny]

that will do

 

[Al_G]

Vim my friend

 

[FiXX]

emacs

 

[Rob Clark]

nano or gedit work fine depending on console / gui

 

[McBunny]

like i said no gui its just running as a webserver

 

[Dink]

i used to use nano on my mybook world

was easy enough to use via ssl

 

[Daz]

Anything other than vim is rubbish.

 

[McBunny]

whats different between vi and vim ?

 

[bmh.01]

Nano does me swimmingly, haven't got the inclination to learn anything else tbh.

 

[sn00p]

whats different between vi and vim ?

Nothing in the UI front, VIM just has added crap.

ee or nano are your best bets.

emacs is w**k.

 

[KDF]

emacs

Deffo emacs.

Nothing in the UI front, VIM just has added crap.

ee or nano are your best bets.

emacs is w**k.

Unless you use Vi or emacs, your opinion is irrelevant TBH.

 

[sn00p]

Deffo emacs.



Unless you use Vi or emacs, your opinion is irrelevant TBH.

I use vi all the time.

!:q

(emacs is and has always been w**k)

 

[KDF]

I use vi all the time.

!:q

(emacs is and has always been w**k)

You mean :q! right ?

 

[sn00p]

You mean :!q right ?

lol. Double geek fail.

:q!

 

[sn00p]

You mean :q! right ?

Caught before your edit.

 

[dk]

i f**king hate command line, i'm a gui windows person through and through but when i have to piss around with esx i always use nano, acts like notepad so is a piece of piss!

Even i can use it!

 

[PinkoCommie]

lol. Double geek fail.

:q!

For me it's sometimes a case of all 3, some swearing, having to reload the file again because i forgot to hit esc 97 times before doing anything and now realise that I have :wq! no right in the middle of what i was editing

Thing is, I used to use Wordstar back in the day and I was pretty good with it. I fail horribly with vi though.

To many years using a mouse I'm afraid.

vi's a dangerous thing when you're using it to mess with rather important files on firewalls :dead:

 

[Darren S]

i f**king hate command line, i'm a gui windows person through and through but when i have to piss around with esx i always use nano, acts like notepad so is a piece of piss!

Even i can use it!

Ah, command lines are great. Nothing wrong with a bit of CMD, black screen and away you go.

I've forgotten most of the command prompts I used to us from the DOS days though.

D.

 

[McBunny]

For me it's sometimes a case of all 3, some swearing, having to reload the file again because i forgot to hit esc 97 times before doing anything and now realise that I have :wq! no right in the middle of what i was editing

Thing is, I used to use Wordstar back in the day and I was pretty good with it. I fail horribly with vi though.

To many years using a mouse I'm afraid.

vi's a dangerous thing when you're using it to mess with rather important files on firewalls :dead:

thats my problem too lol yesterday i was playing with the interface file granted not exactly disastrous if i break it but its a pita if i do