Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? Message-ID: <20010827235717.64861.qmail@web11708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com>
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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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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