Re: Miscellaneous Linux problems

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, B Seiwarski wrote:

> Here be a few queries some of you helpful souls might be able to assist me 
> with:

[..]
 
> 3. The text editor supplied with SuSE 6.3 is not brilliant and so I'm 
> looking for a better one.  I think I've found one on the Internet, but does 
> anyone have any opinions/recommendations for a decent text editor?

I use vi it's worth becoming a power user in it, it's available on most unix
systems everywhere, no other screen editor is, so you'll be able to feel at
home on any system, it'll teach you regular expressions too.
 
> 5. I've got this weird 'Windows optimised multimedia' keyboard (it's even 
> got a built in microphone) that works fine with Linux, but has loads of 
> buttons that just don't do anything.  Any ideas on how I can configure all 
> these buttons, so that, for example, I can pop up the K application menu 
> thing?

Get and find xkeycaps it's BRILL.

Damion

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