Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:57:08 -0500 From: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Simple Editor for a newbie? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010827183056.01ee8cb0@icsmx.com> In-Reply-To: <3B89D9CA.9F0ECF29@citystamp.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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