Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:16:31 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple Editor for a newbie? Message-ID: <01082716163100.00671@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com>
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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
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