Install
My favorite editor is ViM. Incidentally, I love it so much, I use it the Windows version of it too.. Once you get used to it, everything else, including Notepad, is trash! Btw, here's a lovely page I came across on chmod.The equivalent of Windows Explorer in Redhat is a graphical shell called Nautilus (for Gnome). You can access network drives from Nautilus by typing in smb://network_folder in the Location region.
Herez how you install a package. "%" is your shell prompt:
If you have the RPM:
%: rpm -i filename.rpm
If you have the tarball, unzip it:
%: tar xvzf filename.tar.gz
OR
%: tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
Become root:
%: su
Usually, you've to type in this:
%: ./configure
%: make
%: make install
You could also type in:
%: ./configure ; make ; make install
n' go for a coffee break! ;)
posted by Aslan @ 12:40 am
2 Comments:
Seriously, is there anything *worse* than Notepad? Okay, maybe edlin or emacs. Come on, you can't compare Vim to Notepad, though, they are in totally different classes!
Personally, I use JEdit. I find it does what I want an editor to do with the least amount of fuss and the shortest learning curve (none). It's written in Java, so it ought to work whatever platform you're on.
I completely agree that ViM requires a proper learning curve. I hated it the first time I wuz introduced to it, n' used to stick to an editor called 'joe' which used WordStar commands, which I wuz familiar with. But the second time I wuz taught vi wuz the right way, thanx to one Damarugendra [a colleague who will come into the picture later in this blog] n' I fell in love with it.
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