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Originally Posted by
AZbase10
Hardcore UNIX noob here. I'm not shocked to see vi(m) so high on the list.
Learning to use vi is so easy, I've done it dozens of times.
It is...eccentric, and
not designed for a modern keyboard. But knowing vi can make or break your ability to fix an unfamiliar system. Knowing the very, very basics has been crucial to me a few times. (esc :wq = quit and save, esc :q! = quit without saving, esc esc esc = stop doing whatever I turned on by accident, esc i = stop beeping at me and let me type already you stupid program, esc d d = delete the line)
Also, the pico editor is a bit old, wedded to the
pine mailing program, and has some problems as a general-purpose editor(its insistence on linewrapping everything, a horrible thing to do to a script or configfile). nano is the modern equivalent if you can get it, the pico interface plus a little more. You'll find it more places than you find pico these days.