One of the truly cool things about Linux is the capability to access many
different computers regardless of where you happen to physically be located at a given
moment.
Remote access to other servers and workstations is another beauty of Linux, but most
times, those remote machines (especially the servers) don??™t even have X installed. To get
any work done, you need a text editor.
openSUSE offers no fewer than 19 text editors through YaST, as shown in Table 5.1. Don??™t
be overwhelmed by the number of choices, though. Basically, text editors fall into one of
two major camps: editors that behave like vi and editors that behave like emacs. This list
also has a few line editors that work directly in the shell.
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TABLE 5.1 Types of Editors in openSUSE
Vi-type emacs-type Other
Vim emacs Ed
Gvim Xemacs Joe
Nvi TeXmacs Pico
Kvim/Yzis Uemacs E3
Zile FTELeaf
Qemacs Mined
THE (the Hessling Editor)
JEdit
The next few sections will help you work with these various editors.
Working with vim and Its Clones
They say that vi is hard to learn, but once you get there, you can do amazing things with it.
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