... there are two options, and they're both freeware.
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Crimson Editor, which is so great for creating, editing
and saving Unix files that I now have it set to edit practically every .dot file in my Cygwin install.
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Alpine, a standalone version of Pine (Unix email client) and Pico (text editor) paired by their authors and onetime maintainers at the University of Washington. The Pico standalone app saves in UTF-8, so it might be worthwhile checking some of its saved output via
cat or
vi before uploading any of it. I'm partial to Pico and nano anyway, so I was very gratified to find there was a Win32 standalone of the former.
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Originally Posted by JustIce
regardless of what text editor one uses in windows, one should always get proficient in vi at a minimum --- ed would be even better --- |
Here I would have to agree. Even the OS X Terminal, while providing nano (and maybe pico too, nowadays, who knows), installs with vim (
vi modified) as the $EDITOR selection in its .bashrc. And most of the helps and how-to's for Mac command-line you find on the Web assume you use vim as your editor.
Hope this was helpful.
BZT
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Originally Posted by Heidi.Ebbs
Being new to UNIX, using the editor VI has previously proved to be a bit of a challenge and has taken some time to come to terms with the different keys that should be used for navigating around VI.
However, since posting this topic I have been on a UNIX course and have a much better understanding now of permissions, FTP, VI and much more
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