Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:33:10 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for online text editor Message-ID: <20071205153310.GA14975@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20071205090239.E6CCC16A474@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20071205090239.E6CCC16A474@hub.freebsd.org>
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Deep in the forest in the dark of night on Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:02 with a cackle and an evil grin freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org cast another eye of newt into the brew and chanted: > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:35:02 -0500 > From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> > Subject: Re: looking for online text editor > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:11:31PM -0500, David Banning wrote: > > Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have > > tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from > > running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run > > mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program > > out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in > > plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? > Are you talking about something like 'vi(1)' ? > That is the most standard plain text editor unless you want to > go even further down to sed(1). > You would just ssh in (maybe using PuTTY if all you can get on > is a Microsloth box), log in as you and then su to root and edit > files directly. Just a miner kerkshun here. :-) I'm sure you mean ed(1) - the basic editor. sed is the stream editor. The first Unix system I used [ actaully a very sparse Xenix ] did not have 'vi' and the only text editor was 'ed'. In retropsect it was good as I learned how to use regex's quite early in the game which really helped when I got 'vi'. I use 'vi' for 99% of my work - including news and email - and still have probably only scratched 15% of it's capabilites. The first 'vi' implementations I used were limited to 500KB per instansiaton so I wound up using 'split' to be able to work on large file and then pasted them together later. Things just get better with each passing year. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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