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From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie?
To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Are you sticking with the command line? There are a
number of graphical editors out there for any of the
desktops you might install. 


--- Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have been trying to convince some friends to take
> a look to FreeBsd. For 
> most of them this will be their first contact to the
> *NIX world.
> I'm trying to help them to know the basics now (we
> are just beginning) and 
> I'd like that the transition will be easy.
> I found myself that the first "problem" we newbies
> found is the text 
> editor. We are using ee and pico as editors and I
> mentioned them that vi is 
> very powerful  but that I'm still learning it also.
> One asked me how he 
> could make a simple search and replace on a big file
> of all occurrences of 
> a certain string (a task he has to do on his daily
> job). We found ee and 
> pico does not do that on our testing machine because
> we receive a system 
> error (the file we are testing with is very large
> and our testing machine 
> has not much memory).
> I know some of you will say that VI is the only way
> but please understand 
> that at the beginning VI is very hard to master. We
> do not want to develop 
> a perl scrip for this since we wanted first to feel
> comfortable with an 
> editor we can use on daily life to take a look at
> logs, configuration 
> files, scripts etc.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> JB
> 
> 
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