vi or nano in tutorial?

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:10 -0500, Adam Sommer wrote:
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>         if such a document exists, then i agree with you on that.  
> 
> I found this  page: 
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> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerUsersTextEditors
> 
> I don't think the title is exactly what we're looking for, but the
> page is good.  It gives an overview of several different editors and
> provides links to detailed pages for each editor.  It has some of the
> most popular ones, but it could be updated to include others (kate,
> gedit, etc). 
> 
> Once the page is updated, or another such page created we could update
> the Wiki Style guide to recommend linking to it (similar to the
> installing software page).

One thing i think would be good us proving a 'switching CLI editors
guide'.
it could cover using `sudo update-alternatives --config editor` to
change what sensible-editor points to (and $EDITOR ?). we could then
reference `sudo sensible-editor /your/file/here` in guides.
kk

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> 
> Apologies if this is hijacking the thread... the JeOS article looks
> great to me. 
> 
> -- 
> Party On,
> Adam
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Karl Goetz,
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http://www.kgoetz.id.au