vi or nano in tutorial?

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Friday 30 November 2007, Nick Barcet wrote:
| Hello,
|
| Very simple newbie question that was raised writing the tutorial for
| JeOS at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOS...
|
| I can't remember seeing any recommendation on whether we should advise
| new users to use vi or nano.  Is there such recommendation? If not,
| should there be one and what should it be?

It really depends on your audience. For Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu) 
documentation, we tend to right for brand new Linux users. So with that said, 
we typically tell the user in the documentation to use the graphical text 
editor with their system. For Ubuntu tell them to use gEdit, for Kubuntu tell 
them to use Kate or KWrite (preferbly KWrite for simple editing tasks).

If they need superuser powers, then you advise them to open a file such as 
sources.list like the following:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list  (I think it is gksudo, don't use gnome)

for Kubuntu:

kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

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Richard A. Johnson
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