<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote id="DWT202" style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Leif Pihl" <leif@pihl.us><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:54:13 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[mythtv-users] OFF TOPIC: Text Editor(s) ?<br><br>Gents and Madams: <br><br>A friend was just over to help out with Linux and MythBuntu (more on that later). <br>During the course of troubleshooting, he looked through a web site other(s) here had already referenced. <br> ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI_output_does_not_work ) <br>He zipped through it very fast (or at least a LOT faster than I would have), and used a text editor to create one of the files the web page recommended. <br><br>I can't recall the name of the Text Editor, but I know it had only two digits, and I think one was the letter "V'. <br>If I was only interested in that text editor, I could (re)ask him the name of if... <br><br>----- <br><br>What I'm interested in hearing your opinion on is... <br><br>What Text Editor do you think is "the best" (by what ever definition you choose), <br>and/or the one that you would recommend to a "newbie" like me? <br></blockquote>Oh man . . . text editors have been the cause of many "religious wars" since the ur-times of the Internet.<br><br>You friend was likely using 'vi'. The slightly-more-modern version is 'vim.' <br><br>The other major player is emacs.<br><br>I prefer vi / vim. It is a major pain to get used to the modes and keystrokes, but once you have those down you can edit simple files very easily.<br><br>Stefan<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"></blockquote></div></body></html>