1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Before I learned how wonderfull VI and Unix was. I used a little crappy DOS editor. I wouldn't go back to it for anything. However I work with a lot of formatted files that use the column position. I wonder if any here knows of a way to make VI display the cursors coulmn position or if there is a... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I was wondering if there is any way to get a version of pico for windows. I have done a lot of programming work on Linux/UNIX exvironments for school, and I enjoy using pico for my programming needs, but I find all of the text editors in windows horrible, they distort my code and do not adhere to... (5 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I currently use konsole fo rmy terminal use. when i go into vi and type the letter t the stupied thing highlights the letter brown and it messes my thing up. Whereever i type the letter t it highlights in brown. Is there some way to change it. I dont know how this problem start. RH 8 (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I was wondering if there was a way to modify a tab delimited text file, up to 185,000 lines long by adding a repeated field to a block of 20 data , then repeat the process until the file is processed. The current file looks like: ... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I knw its a silly question, but am a newbie to 'vi' editor. I'm forced to use this, hence kindly help me with this question. How can i paste a chunk 'copied from' a different editor(gedit) in 'vi editor'? As i see, p & P options does work only within 'vi'. (10 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a big text file. I want to cut it into 2 pieces at known point or I know the pattern of the contents from where it can separate the files. Is there any quick command/solution? (4 Replies)

7. Programming

Hi, I want to create a text editor in C on Unix. Can any1 jus tell me how to start with n wat all I have to look into if I have to write an editor.. Thanks (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everyone, suppose there is a very big text file (>800 mb) that each line contains an article from wikipedia. Each article begins with a tag (<..>) containing its url. Currently there are 10^6 articles in the file. I want to take random N articles, eliminate all non-alpharithmetic... (14 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Do you know any text editor (other than Gvim, which I am using) which is made specially for c type languages? The reason I ask for it is: I just spent 3 hours trying to find out start "if" and its end "if end".:wall: I hope there is an editor which can link each if with its closing endif . (4 Replies)

10. Solaris

Hi, sorry if something similar has already asked. But I am interested how to change default text editor on Unix Solaris? When I open File Manager -> Edit -> Properties.. -> Category (Advanced Settings) -> Default Editor (Other) I have something like: shelltool sh -c "sleep 3; vi $FILE"... (13 Replies)