Default editor

[Florian Diesch]

Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:

> Personally I use GUI text editors most of the time (Gedit,Kwrite,etc), as it's 
> easy to find the files that I want to edit. I have made changes 
> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf though, and have lost the Xserver. Not using vi/vim on 
> a regular basis, I found that nano was easier to use for the odd occasion 
> that I needed to use a text mode text editor.
>
> the biggest problem I find in using text mode text editors is finding the file 
> that I want to edit, and it's name.
>
> For example. nano /etc/X11 results in "this is a directory", and unless you 
> know the filename that you want to edit in /etc/X11 you're back to square 
> one.

vim and Emacs give you a listing of /etc/X11/ where you can select the
file you want to edit. They also have file name completion when
opening a file. In nano you get the listing by pressing Ctrl-R Ctrl-T.

Maybe you want to have a look at fte, it's a menu driven text mode editor




   Florian
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