From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> I view vi like I view the command line, the more you know about it the
> better but I always go for a gui tool first.

BTW I have seen a few people use gedit. I don't know if it is commonly
available, but it seemed (at quick glance) to work like Notepad (i.e. it
just works!), with extras.

Google tells me that "gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME
desktop environment".

John

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