Get It Now! mp3 file Contact Details: Email: questions@rootsmart.com Voicemail: (206) 734-4825 Skype: rootsmart Donate Vote for us at Podcast Alley JTsBlog Live Show site is up at liveshow.rootsmart.com Also have a video on how to connect Looking for Intros Email: From Robert: Hey love your show. I listen to it on my headphones as I do my day job which is all involving microsoft based technology - its great to mix up my day with a bit of linux I would like to hear you talk about different linux distributions. E.g. best ones for newbies/learning, best one if your trying to replace windows on a desktop pc. Etc. Or perhaps some windows/linux dual boot info? From Anonymous Hey Joe, love your podcast. I have a question about information management. I like to store tech information like tips and tricks, and troubleshooting information from the Internet. I was wondering if you had any recommendations for a system to organize this information. I would like a system that can keep track of metadata that can be modified, be flexible enough to handle multiple file types (including podcasts,) be able to add tags to the file, and store the whole system locally for travel/on a server to share with multiple computers. I was thinking of using a wiki, but I have no idea on where to start. (I have both Linux and Windows computers) Thank you very much for any help you can give. Try Treepad Content: Last time we did directories this time we are going to go over editing text files there are a couple of different tools in linux to do this The two main ones are vi and emacs we are going to talk about vi, and then another editor nano So vi has been a text editor in linux for quite some time It has recently evolved into vim which is VI Improved and they just wen to vi version 7.0 My talk does not include 7.0 and any changes that were made with 7 so to start up vim type vim and then the file you want to edit now this is text editor so it must be a text type file To exit vim you can do one of two things If you want to exit and save your changes you need to go into command mode so press escape and then type :wq this will quit and write if you want to exit, but not save make sure you are in command and then type :q! once you have gotten into the file you aren't able to do much so lets go into insert mode to do this just press i now you are able to edit as you please generally this is pretty straight-foward for editing just type where you would like to type, and everything is good. ok so now there are couple deleting commands, that you might want to know if you are in normal mode you can press x to delete the character under your cursor to delete a word you can type dw to delete a word to undo something, don't press ctl-Z press u To redo something type ctl-R now lets do a cut command to do this, we are going to erase something, lets say a word with dw then we want to put this somewhere, you type p and it will put what is in the latest buffer ok so now to a find some text type /<text you want to find> it will look or the text to go to the next occurrence of the text type n to go up the file type shift-N So that is the for VIM for a while, these are pretty hard initially to remember, but soon they will be muscle memory you can also revisit all of this by typing vimtutor this will give a you a walkthrough of VIM in the new vim 7.0 there are some new advancements the best ones, are spell check, omni completion, and tabs spell check is pretty straight foward as for omni-completion, it basic code completion for a bunch of languages Tabs also are pretty obvious. So, if you don't feel like memorizing all of the commands I recommend nano nano is not as powerful for basic editing it works just fine there is the bar on the bottom that tells you everything you need to know to start up nano type nano <file name> now remember that the ^ means control so that is text editors 101 if you would like to fiddle with other editors you can look at joe or emacs there are tons out there Technorati Tags: JT, Linux, text editors, RootSmart.com, vi, vim

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