Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:32:21 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for online text editor Message-ID: <20071205153221.GA21074@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071205153310.GA14975@wjv.com> References: <20071205090239.E6CCC16A474@hub.freebsd.org> <20071205153310.GA14975@wjv.com>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:33:10AM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote: > > 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. > > > 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. You are right. The fingers seem to run under their own agenda. ////jerry > ... > > Bill > > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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