Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-- John Griffiths <johnboy@the-riotact.com> wrote
(on Thursday, 03 April 2003, 10:58 AM +1000):
> Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a
> decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with.
>
> - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a
> number of remote locations.
>
> I know Debian is blessed with a plethora of programs that can do this,
> what I'm after is a recommendation for something that feels good to
> write with.
>
> in a perfect world I'd like decent cut and paste, command characters for
> end of word/start of word, and export to a human readable open format.
vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format
your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.)
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
http://matthew.weierophinney.net
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