[bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question

[Lee Latham]

yeah but then they say "I typed 'pico' and nothing happened"

admin: "Nothing happened?  Did you get an error message?"

customer: "No."

"No error message?"

"Yes."

"You mean you typed in 'pico' and it just gave you a prompt back?"

"What's a prompt?"

"Never mind.  Please type it in again."

"Okay"

long pause

"Did you type it in again?"

"Yes, and nothing happened!"

"What did it say"

"It says 'command not found'"

"Ah, okay, it's not in your path.  We just need to put it in your 
path."  pause while you find it  "Okay, just edit your .bashrc....DOH!"





At 05:23 PM 7/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>then of course there is the basic text editor, "pico" or "nano" which make
>it really easy to configure software on a linux server. i mean vi and
>emacs are great, but for newbs, pico and nano are great alternatives.
>
>
>On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Andreas, Fredriksson wrote:
>
> >
> > I use vim exclusively for all programming, I actually switched from
> > emacs to vi because it felt like I finally "came home".
> >
> > It must hurt a bf-playing emacs users to hear that the parts of the
> > code were written in vi. :-D
> >
> > But I agree that teaching vi to users not really interested in editors
> > is more work than making a web frontend to ServerSettings.con :-)
> >
> > IIRC there are several frontends readily available already.
> >
> > // Andreas
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kenneth Porter
> > To: BF1942 Server List
> > Sent: 7/25/2003 11:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question
> >
> > --On Friday, July 25, 2003 01:19:45 PM -0500 Lee Latham
> > <leeprivate at cgmlarson.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Teaching people vi against their will is not too rewarding...been
> > there,
> > > done that!
> >
> > Ick. I can never remember how to get out of vi when I've somehow
> > accidentally started it. I'm exclusively an Emacs user. :D (Actually, I
> > mostly use Lugaru Epsilon, an Emacs clone for other platforms that's now
> >
> > been ported to Linux and BSD. http://www.lugaru.com/)
> >

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Lee M. Latham
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