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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/14/13 5:00 PM, Stefan Jones
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255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Leif
Pihl" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:leif@pihl.us"><leif@pihl.us></a><br>
<b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV"
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<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:54:13 PM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[mythtv-users] OFF TOPIC: Text Editor(s) ?<br>
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Gents and Madams: <br>
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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>
(
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI_output_does_not_work">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI_output_does_not_work</a>
) <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>
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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>
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What I'm interested in hearing your opinion on is... <br>
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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?
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Oh man . . . text editors have been the cause of many "religious
wars" since the ur-times of the Internet.<br>
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True enough. Many have suffered in the flames of those wars.<br>
Though, it was fun occasionally throwing a flame war off track with
the mention of edlin. ;)<br>
Edlin: Microsoft's answer to vi. ;)<br>
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Windows, brought to you by the same folks who brought you edlin.<br>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">You
friend was likely using 'vi'. The slightly-more-modern version
is 'vim.' <br>
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The other major player is emacs.<br>
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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>
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Stefan<br>
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