Re: [SLUG] {SPAM?} mouse or lack of

From: patrick grantham (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 19:34:21 EST


pico is simple, put effective.

On Monday 24 February 2003 07:02 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:27:39AM +0100, A2L1 wrote:
> > On Monday 24 February 2003 05:54 am, you wrote:
> > > Piece of cake :) As you have seen, Knoppix defaults to read only
> > > when it auto-mounts hd partitions. Just remount the partition (as root)
> > > and give yourself Read/Write permissions for that partition. As an
> > > example, let's say that your file happens to be on /dev/hda6. Type
> > > "mount -t (filesystem-type) /dev/hda6 /hda6" and it will remount with
> > > writes enabled. Make your changes, save the file, reboot and all is
> > > well in Linuxland again. :)
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > Thanks Jeff,
> > But as of this morning, after repeaded failed attempts, I decided to
> > just re-install and update the entire thing all over again. The practice
> > will do me some good and it will also prompt me to get more into command
> > line editors. So far after all my studies I have come to the conclusion
> > that emacs seems the best suited( numerous online lists of keyboard
> > commands and it seems more inclined to my type of usage) Again I thank
> > you for your reply and kick myself for not thinking of it, but the entire
> > system will be installed and updated by later tonite, I hope.
>
> I don't want to start an editor war, but it you want something most like
> what you'd find in DOS or Windows, try Nano. The command keys are listed
> at the bottom of the screen, and it will do most any simple editing task
> you want. Vi is a little hard to take if you've never dealt with an
> editor with "modes" before (as in all DOS/Windows editors). Emacs will
> work, but you really need a foot-thick manual to remember all the
> commands. On the other hand, Emacs will also milk your cows, among other
> things. If you want to do full-out syntax-hilighted code hacking, Nano's
> not for you. But for simple editing tasks, it's a good choice.
>
> Paul

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