ubuntu server 11.04

[Korves, Tim]

Avi, you're right. But I'm a vim user... So, it looked like an easy
example to me... ;-)

2011/7/13 Avi <lists at avi.co>:
> Korves, Tim wrote:
>
>> you could use any console-based editor like vi, vi-improved (vim),
>> nano, pico, joe, etc.
>>
>> Just open the file with your preferred editor.
>>
>> <snip>
>> vim /path/to/file.xml
>>
>> [ESC], :wq
>> </snap>
>>
>> Hope this was the answer you expected.
>
>
> Even as a Vim user I feel I should point out that vim is almost never
> what is expected the first time someone needs to edit a file in the
> terminal.
>
> It's a very good editor, but it's one that requires some learning.
> Things take longer in, say, nano, but you're not at all likely to
> accidentally save a file of garbage with it (unless your muscle memory
> insists upon leaving vi commands all over the place :) )
>
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