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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Wordpad or Notepad? Post 302318339 by SilversleevesX on Thursday 21st of May 2009 10:40:31 AM

05-21-2009

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If you'd rather stay in the Windows GUI for your scripts in the log run...

... there are two options, and they're both freeware.

* 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.

* 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.

Quote:

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

Quote:

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

:-)

Last edited by SilversleevesX; 05-21-2009 at 11:56 AM.. Reason: Pointed up the difference between CLI and S/A Pico

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EVIM(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   EVIM(1)

NAME

       evim - easy Vim, edit a file with Vim and setup for modeless editing

SYNOPSIS

       evim [options] [file ..]
       eview

DESCRIPTION

       eVim  starts  Vim and sets options to make it behave like a modeless editor.  This is still Vim but used as a point-and-click editor.  This
       feels a lot like using Notepad on MS-Windows.  eVim will always run in the GUI, to enable the use of menus and toolbar.

       Only to be used for people who really can't work with Vim in the normal way.  Editing will be much less efficient.

       eview is the same, but starts in read-only mode.  It works just like evim -R.

       See vim(1) for details about Vim, options, etc.

       The 'insertmode' option is set to be able to type text directly.
       Mappings are setup to make Copy and Paste work with the MS-Windows keys.  CTRL-X cuts text, CTRL-C copies text and CTRL-V pastes text.  Use
       CTRL-Q to obtain the original meaning of CTRL-V.

OPTIONS

       See vim(1).

FILES

       /usr/share/vim/vim72/evim.vim
		      The script loaded to initialize eVim.

AKA

       Also  Known  As "Vim for gumbies".  When using evim you are expected to take a handkerchief, make a knot in each corner and wear it on your
       head.

SEE ALSO

       vim(1)

AUTHOR

       Most of Vim was made by Bram Moolenaar, with a lot of help from others.	See the Help/Credits menu.

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