vi or nano in tutorial?

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 22:17 +0100, Nick Barcet wrote: 
> Adam Sommer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >     if such a document exists, then i agree with you on that.
> > 
> > 
> > I found this  page:
> > 
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerUsersTextEditors
> > 
> > I don't think the title is exactly what we're looking for, but the page
> > is good.  It gives an overview of several different editors and provides
> > links to detailed pages for each editor.  It has some of the most
> > popular ones, but it could be updated to include others (kate, gedit, etc).
> > 
> > Once the page is updated, or another such page created we could update
> > the Wiki Style guide to recommend linking to it (similar to the
> > installing software page).
> 
> Thanks a lot for your suggestions regarding the text editors (this
> applies to all whom responded to my request).  I have now modified the
> tutorial so that I do not refer to vi anymore but use something like :
> "open the file /opt/sample-app/index.php using sudo with your text
> editor of choice"

i'd find 'to open the file, `sudo editor /path/to/file` a bit cleaner,
but it might be less clear too.
kk

> 
> I have also added in the Initial Setup section the following sentence:
> "We also assume that you know how to use a text based text editor such
> as nano or vi. If you have not used any of them before, you can get an
> overview of the various text editors available by reading the
> PowerUsersTextEditors page."
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 

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Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au