----- Original Message ----- From: Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:13 pm Subject: Re: DOS-like text editors To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > On 5/13/06, Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 May 2006 02:33:06 +0100 > > Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > For years now, I've been looking for a command-line, text > console-mode > > > text editor for Linux that looked and worked something like > MS-DOS > > > Edit or any other CUA program. > > > > > > But doing some digging and Googling and hunting around, I've > found two > > > pretty decent CUA menu-driven editors: ww and setedit. > > > > > > > > However, SETEdit seems like the business. It's perhaps a > tiny bit > > > overcomplicated, but it does pretty much everything you > could ask, > > > from multifile editing and syntax highlighting and so on to > a simple, > > > easy-to-use menu-driven interface. > > > > > > I know that feeling - what I found and settled on (it's in > the Ubuntu repositories) > > is FTE, runs from X, a console or a shell. Syntax > highlighting, drop-down menues CUA compatible > > everything I want or need. > > I tried to run FTE, installing it with > > sudo apt-get fte > > ...which appeared to go through normally. However, the program does > not run, complaining that no FTP binary could be found. I > googled for > the error message; nothing. Perhaps even the console-mode version > requires X.11? > There are several packages you have to install. do : sudo apt-cache search fte </lproven@gmail.com></fmccormick@videotron.ca> ---Frank McCormick--- ------Montreal--------