From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 17:16:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDAA37B406 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:16:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE734556; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:16:31 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Jorge Biquez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:16:31 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082716163100.00671@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 27 August 2001 03:57 pm, Jorge Biquez 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 > Try pico, it's in the ports. This is a very easy editor to use for a beginner. Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message