On Monday 15 October 2001 12:33 am, MJ Ray wrote:
"John Woodard" mail@johnwoodard.co.uk writes:
As an aside I'm totally impartial in this conflict coz I can't understand either of the buggers so I'll stick with Pico or Kwrite for now.
People attack one editor I use (XEmacs) because of its keyboard shortcuts and they attack the other (wily) because of its extensive use of the mouse. Can't win, can you?
You are never going to please everybody. One of the things I like most about Linux/Gnu is the fact that there is nearly always a choice. If you like what in my opinion is Vi or Emacs weirdness good on you, keep using them and keep supporting their open source development. On the other hand if you are like me and cannot really be bothered to learn all those cryptic key strokes go for the more simple to use (in my opinion) option.
By the way, if you like pico, try jpico from the joe package. nano is also another good replacement for it.
Like I said choice is good. I just loaded nano and will give it a go. I had joe on my system but I didn't realise it had the choice of a pico clone interface. So now I have a choice of 3 command line editors to choose from. Do hope I don't get too confused, now what was I saying about choice being good? :-0 Like I said you can't please everybody. :-)
Cheers, BJ