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Re: [LUG] VI alternative

 

Terry Hill wrote:

> I *detest* VI.  And the other one.

Come here, come on...

*HUG*

It's okay. Really. You're not alone.

> Is there a good bash invoked alternative that works like notepad, with
> a few keyboard shortcuts for saving or quitting, that will let me use
> cursor keys to get around and edit text files?

Jed.

Very similar to DOS's edit.exe, powerful enough for me (it's an editor, 
not a computer language in its own right)

> It would be even better if i can apt-get install it too :)

apt-get install jed

(Should include jed-common also)

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