For new users and veteran users for that matter, I highly recommend taking a look at Midnight Commander. Some may remember it, most folks today will never have heard of it.
Midnight Commander has been around as long as I can remember and I have been using it for so many years that I forget which version of RedHat I discovered in, probably RH 7.0 back around the year 2000 or so. It was always part of a default install of RedHat.
Anyways, Midnight Commander is a file manager, file editor but best of all it runs in a console, whether you have a GUI or not, it is an ncurses based app.
It can be installed via your favorite graphical package manager by looking for mc.
Or via apt-get
sudo apt-get install mc
Midnight Commander is 1000 times easier to use then nano, vi, or emacs. No cryptic key commands to remember, all the basic needed commands, save quit, insert edit are listed at the bottom and it really doesn't get any easier.
Have a look at it, i think you'll like it.
To use it you envoke mcedit
So for instance to edit xorg.conf
sudo mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Have look you will love it!!
Midnight Commander has been around as long as I can remember and I have been using it for so many years that I forget which version of RedHat I discovered in, probably RH 7.0 back around the year 2000 or so. It was always part of a default install of RedHat.
Anyways, Midnight Commander is a file manager, file editor but best of all it runs in a console, whether you have a GUI or not, it is an ncurses based app.
It can be installed via your favorite graphical package manager by looking for mc.
Or via apt-get
sudo apt-get install mc
Midnight Commander is 1000 times easier to use then nano, vi, or emacs. No cryptic key commands to remember, all the basic needed commands, save quit, insert edit are listed at the bottom and it really doesn't get any easier.
Have a look at it, i think you'll like it.
To use it you envoke mcedit
So for instance to edit xorg.conf
sudo mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Have look you will love it!!
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