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

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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

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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.
 

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Oddly, Internet Tablet OS doesn't ship with ed. That's fairly unusual for a *nix.
 
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You can install mc - there's a fairly easy editor in it.
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Oddly, Internet Tablet OS doesn't ship with ed. That's fairly unusual for a *nix.
We get Busybox. I wish I could say that was unusual for a portable *nix device
 

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Originally Posted by josiahg777 View Post
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
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?
 
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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.

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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.
 
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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
 
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