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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Need a very simple editor
From:       Maks Orlovich <mo002j () mail ! rochester ! edu>
Date:       2002-01-21 0:04:21
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On Sunday 20 January 2002 05:45 pm, you wrote:
> le dim 20-01-2002 à 23:17, Quel Qun a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > While trying to get some people started with Mandrake on irc, it appears
> > that one of the big obstacle is the difficulty to edit a very simple
> > text config file.
> >
> > Very often, people are booting windows to come asking for help and it is
> > quite hard to explain how they will have to use vi after rebooting.
> > There is a need for a very simple editor installed by default that does
> > not use Ctrl-K D to save a file, and that uses correctly the del and
> > backspace key.
> >
> > The only one we found (thx Woody) coming close to this is pico, but it
> > is embedded in the pine rpm, and i don't know if this package is
> > intalled by default.
>
> there's joe too

I would also suggest mcedit, Midnight Commander's editor.
Just tell the users that the number represent the F-keys - and they should be 
fine with it..


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