[mythtv-users] Scary times ahead
Gabe Rubin
gaberubin at gmail.com
Wed May 11 21:31:14 UTC 2005
> what's nano? is that the editor all the gentoo docs use? i know it was
> something i'd never used before that reminded me of pico, but not sure
> what it was called...
it is a clone of pico. I believe there were licensing issues with
pico that prevented it from being in debian base install, so i got to
learn nano instead.
> > There really is NO REASON to need to know emacs or vi to use myth. None!
>
> yah, but it's good to know, since i think nearly every distro and *nix
> flavor (incl OS X) has VI or Vim installed by default ;) and if you
> think about it, it's not really any harder to use than notepad.exe, it's
> just that we've all been trained from the early days of home computing
> to remember all those Ctrl+[x] keys .. in vi, it's just a different set
> of keys to remember :p
>
sure it may be good to know, but it is not needed, and particularly
not needed if you are just trying to get your toes into the linux
waters. It is also good to know how to compile your own kernel, but
not neccesary for myth, and something a newbie should not attempt
right away.
For the record, I have never bothered to learn VI, would need my hand
held if I got in it, and have accidently done damage by trying to use
it. I have been using various unix and linux distros off and on for
over 10 years now. I am no power user, but I just dont see the need
to use it.
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