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Top Forums Programming Open Source What editor does everyone use? Post 302077405 by phatpenguin on Wednesday 21st of June 2006 06:46:07 PM
Old 06-21-2006
vi is massively powerful with very little footprint. once you learn vi you can edit a file faster in it than just about any other text editor.

if you are a UNIX admin, you NEED to learn vi. I have NEVER run across a *NIX system (or BSD) that did not have a version of vi. one time i typed #vi somefile on a system and it said "vi not recognized as an internal or external command" and I almost fainted. I had already begun editing the file, and had a bunch of garbage on the screen.

luckily, i typed it in again and it worked.

the more tricks you learn in vi, the better it will feel. a master of vi can open edit and save a file in vi before an opponent has even opened the file in notepad.

I am not a master of vi yet, but i hope to acheive that enlightened state of mind at some point in my existence.

I hope by constant vigilence to achieve moksha, or liberation from the wheel of life and existence to a higher plane in which the perfect use of vi is finally realized.
 

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blaze-edit

BLAZE-EDIT(1)						    BlazeBlogger Documentation						     BLAZE-EDIT(1)

NAME

       blaze-edit - edits a blog post or a page in the BlazeBlogger repository

SYNOPSIS

       blaze-edit [-fpqCPV] [-b directory] [-E editor] id

       blaze-edit -h|-v

DESCRIPTION

       blaze-edit opens an existing blog post or a page with the specified id in an external text editor. Note that there are several special
       forms and placeholders that can be used in the text, and that will be replaced with a proper data when the blog is generated.

   Special Forms
       <!-- break -->
	   A mark to delimit a blog post synopsis.

   Placeholders
       %root%
	   A relative path to the root directory of the blog.

       %home%
	   A relative path to the index page of the blog.

       %page[id]%
	   A relative path to a page with the supplied id.

       %post[id]%
	   A relative path to a blog post with the supplied id.

       %tag[name]%
	   A relative path to a tag with the supplied name.

OPTIONS

       -b directory, --blogdir directory
	   Allows you to specify a directory in which the BlazeBlogger repository is placed. The default option is a current working directory.

       -E editor, --editor editor
	   Allows you to specify an external text editor. When supplied, this option overrides the relevant configuration option.

       -p, --page
	   Tells blaze-edit to edit a page or pages.

       -P, --post
	   Tells blaze-edit to edit a blog post or blog posts. This is the default option.

       -f, --force
	   Tells blaze-edit to create an empty source file in case it does not already exist. If the core.processor option is enabled, this file
	   is used as the input to be processed by the selected application.

       -C, --no-processor
	   Disables processing a blog post or page with an external application.

       -q, --quiet
	   Disables displaying of unnecessary messages.

       -V, --verbose
	   Enables displaying of all messages. This is the default option.

       -h, --help
	   Displays usage information and exits.

       -v, --version
	   Displays version information and exits.

ENVIRONMENT

       EDITOR
	   Unless the core.editor option is set, BlazeBlogger tries to use system-wide settings to decide which editor to use.

EXAMPLE USAGE

       Edit a blog post in an external text editor:

	 ~]$ blaze-edit 10

       Edit a page in an external text editor:

	 ~]$ blaze-edit -p 4

       Edit a page in nano:

	 ~]$ blaze-edit -p 2 -E nano

SEE ALSO

       blaze-config(1), blaze-add(1), blaze-list(1)

BUGS

       To report a bug or to send a patch, please, add a new issue to the bug tracker at <http://code.google.com/p/blazeblogger/issues/>, or visit
       the discussion group at <http://groups.google.com/group/blazeblogger/>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008-2011 Jaromir Hradilek

       This program is free software; see the source for copying conditions. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
       WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Version 1.2.0							    2012-03-05							     BLAZE-EDIT(1)
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