Editor?
 

Is there another editor in the Terminal besides vi or vim?

Thanks,
Bill

Re: Editor?
 

There's nano (a pico clone) which you can install from the app manager

And there's a port of emacs floating around the site :) Try doing a search for it

Hope this helps :)

Re: Editor?
 

You can use Leafpad, one of the easiest editors out there. Sometimes it's hard to navigate to certain directories FROM leafpad, but if you're in a terminal just type leafpad filename and you're "in like Flynn", whoever he was.

Re: Editor?
 

Oddly, Internet Tablet OS doesn't ship with ed. That's fairly unusual for a *nix.

Re: Editor?
 

You can install mc - there's a fairly easy editor in it.

Re: Editor?
 

We get Busybox. I wish I could say that was unusual for a portable *nix device :(

Re: Editor?
 

Thanks for the reply.

I've used nano in the Mandriva distro, but I don't find it in my App manager. What repository do I need to add?

Re: Editor?
 

I like joe. Been using joe for years. There is an OS2008 port available, but the screen isn't quite right in Xterm non-fullscreen.

Search Gronmayer for the editors. Gronmayer has it all! ;)

Re: Editor?
 

Hmm... joe works fine here -- did you install ncurses-base? It's not a dependency, but the fall-back is not compatible with osso-xterm, so you really want it.

Re: Editor?
 

Well, I appreciate all of the replies, but I could not find anything that works with Diablo. I get either incompatible, or missing dependencies, or just nothing.

Bill

Re: Editor?
 

Hi, if you like emacs, you'll find it here.

http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/m...acs-for-maemo/

I'm the maintainer of this port. I plan to install diablo in the next days. If there are issues, I'll post the solution here.

Good luck,

Ulysses

Re: Editor?
 

What is wrong with the swiss army knife - emelfm2? It is my chosen editor. It is a file manager that you can navigate to where the file is, and if it is tar, it can open it on the spot....and it is root you can gainroot before.

I just can not see any editor can be more flexible.

bun

Re: Editor?
 

This thread reads like a parody of all linux threads .a newbie has a problem installing an ediitor and we all urge him to switch to our favorite editors.

His basic problem is that whenever he tries to run ANY editor he has dependency problems. Can someone help with that? Or, alternately, have you tried Abiword? Kate? Xywrite?

That last was a joke. When you try to install these editors, are you picking them from editors listed in application manager? They should all install easily. They all work under.Diablo. I prefer to focus on leafpad, because it is one of the easiest editors.

Re: Editor?
 

OK, so here's the update on emacs in diablo.

You will need the ncurses-base package for the no X package.
It can be found here until it gets integrated in diablo repo's:

web addr: http://repository.maemo.org/
distrib: chinook
components: free non-free

I haven't tried the X emacs package, you'll likely to have to hunt for libxaw7.

Good luck.

Ulysses

Re: Editor?
 

This is the problem, I put this repository in and ncurses doesn't show up in the list of Installables. To all the other folks, I'm looking for an editor to use in terminal to edit .bashrc, etc and I don't know if you can use Leafpad, etc for this.

joe, emacs, etc don't show in the Applications Manager either.

I think I'll just put the N800 back on the shelf and concentrate on my Asus Eee.

Bill

Re: Editor?
 

Ignoring your "besides [...] vim" and wanting to plug a newly invigorated mud-builder, there's vim 7.0 in extras-devel at the moment.

The next build will have a menu item to launch the terminal with vim loaded. When this is done, I'll promote it to extras and then it's just a click away.

Re: Editor?
 

It works fine on diablo (I haven't tried the X version, though, which probably needs to be hildonized).

Re: Editor?
 

Not Flynn, Flint, from a 60s movie, with the title, amazingly, of "In like Flint". Third-rate Bond knockoff, starring James Coburn.

Re: Editor?
 

It's actually the sequel to "Our Man Flint". The original was not so much a knock-off rather than a parody of Bond. Flint knows more, fights better and has kewler gadgets than the One From Albion.

"Our Man Flint" is rather watchable; the sequel not so much (a good comparison is "Batman" vs "Batman and Robin").

Re: Editor?
 

Errol Flynn. Go watch some old, black and white movies.

The title is a play on the phrase "in like Flynn", which predates the Flint movie by more than a decade.