is there a better editor that vi to use??

*warning: holy war in progress *
no, vi is the best

How ambiguous... Better for what? Simple text editing, such as maybe a journal you keep, sure, give nano or pico a try.

Better for config files, not really. You could use another text editor, however you will find less headache at the end of the day if you just stick with vi(m). It keeps your syntax together better, helping to ensure you don't break your code and such, plus it's the one that'll be there in a pinch since all distros (?) have it by default whereas some won't have joe/pico/nano or whatever.

Also, in rescue mode, vi(m) will be the easiest to use since you won't have to execute with full path as you would with one of the others.

For easier use, you could try gvim (gui vim).

Cool

I think the safest thing to post here is 'What do you think would make it better?'

Vim

i thought this was the newbie section, maybe I should have an ultra newbie section. Ive been studying this for 6 weeks now and am finding vi (i ont know what the (m) means) very difficult to use.

Anyways thanks for adding a little, confusing a little and for VIM, whatever that may mean

VIM= VI(i)M(proved)

vi(m) can be difficult. It's more of a practice-til-you-learn tool than a read-til-you-learn since it has some oddities. Like I said before though, you can use nano, or pico or joe or gvim, kate, kwrite... whatever, if this is simple text editing in a free text type file. However, if the syntax is strict or this is a conf file, it is usually worth the struggling to use vim to edit with. Find a good vim "quick usage guide" and print it out. Then pull it out when you need to do some vim editing.



Cool

Here's a fairly simple guige to vim:
http://www.mkaz.com/reference/vimguide.html
lynch

xemacs 21.4

=(

GNU Emacs 21.2.2 :}

Works in command-line-interface, too ;)

Only disadvantage: doesn't fit on the
boot-disk ;)

Cheers,
Tink

<feeding the fire>
...is that it's not vi(m)
</feeding the fire>

<feeding the fire>
...is that it's not Xemacs
</feeding the fire>

/me sighs:
"I wish IBM had ported OS/2's EPM to linux..."

Fully scritpable using REXX, clear C-Interface,
... *sigh*

Cheers,
Tink

I swear by VI, but most people look at me like I enjoy tearing my fingernails out with pliers when I say that. Alot of people seem to think pico has less of a learning curve.