Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Mar 2006 14:56 UTC, submitted by jeremy
Linux The results of the LinuxQuestions member's choice awards are in. The results: Ubuntu is the best distribution, OpenOffice.org the best office suite, GAIM the best instant messenger, KDE the best desktop environment (Run! Run! Duck! Duck!), Konqueror the best filemanager, etc. Do with the results as you please.
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RE[2]: Ah, vi
by Celerate on Tue 7th Mar 2006 20:15 UTC in reply to "RE: Ah, vi"
Celerate
Member since:
2005-06-29

"if not the easiest to learn or use"

Hehehe, another one of these threads.

Obviously you haven't tried Pico or Nano, those are by far the easiest and most user intuitive command line editors I've seen. They don't have many features, but they are both fully qualified text editors. IMO Nano should be included with every distribution, when you tell a complete newbie to edit a configuration file the last thing they need is to have to learn the editor as well, that wouldn't be necessary with Nano.

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RE[3]: Ah, vi
by mcrumley on Wed 8th Mar 2006 02:59 in reply to "RE[2]: Ah, vi"
mcrumley Member since:
2005-06-29

Sorry if you misunderstood me. What I meant was that it is not the easiest editor to learn. Although using it is not too bad once you get used to the modal editing thing...

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RE[3]: Ah, vi
by Beresford on Wed 8th Mar 2006 04:26 in reply to "RE[2]: Ah, vi"
Beresford Member since:
2005-07-06

I second that.

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RE[4]: Ah, vi
by Beresford on Wed 8th Mar 2006 04:27 in reply to "RE[3]: Ah, vi"
Beresford Member since:
2005-07-06

Oops, about including Nano in every distro by default.

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