Re: Miscellaneous Linux problems

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> > > anyone have any opinions/recommendations for a decent text editor?
> >
> > joe.  The one and only.
> 
> Joe. Yes _definately_ joe.
> 
> Tutorial in joe:
> 
> Invoke with 'joe filename'
> edit file as with any text editor
> Press Ctrl + k then 'q' to quit without saving
> Press Ctrl + k then 'x' to save file and quit
> 
> That is really all you need to know.

No, all you really need to know is invokation and Ctrl-K then H for help -
and it even tells you that in the top bar.  Everything from there you can
work out from the help - including the inbuilt compilation feature. 
ESC-C is your friend...

> > > 4. Graphical, WYSIWYG-style HTML editors - any ideas?  Although I can
> use a
> > > text editor to create tables in HTML and Netscape to view them, it's
> hardly
> > > ideal.
> 
> > Doesn't Nutscrape come with a Composer?
> > Maybe it's crudware, I don't know, I've never used it.
> 
> Netscape Composer is the sole reason I learned to write HTML. It's dire.
> Don't go there.

OK.  I've never used it, so I didn't know.

> > Alternately, an LSM search on "HTML" and "Editor" couldn't do any harm.
> 
> You have a HTML editor already. It is invoked by typing 'joe'

The OP specifically mentioned Text-editors and that he didn't like 'em.  I
agree, though, that joe is a worthy HTML editor - I do all mine in joe
(which might expalin why my pages aren't as eye-candious as some...)

> > filesystems, so perhaps there's a hack somewhere for it.  Is the Mac CDs
> > ISO9660?  Don't know.
> 
> Nope Apple has special CD format according to Nero my CD writing software

<shudder>


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