an editor that doesn't require any esc or control keys to be used...

[John Abreau]

FRamsay at castelhq.com writes:

> I'm looking for an editor that doesn't require any esc or control keys to
> be used, preferably one that comes by default in redhat
> Does anyone know of one?
> I need it because I'm telneting from an AS/400 and it grabs all of those :
> (   (basicly emacs AND vi are both useless in this situtation)

Wow, that's pretty lame! If you have no control keys, you lose a lot of
things; no ^C to kill a job, no ^Z to suspend a job, etc.

If you're really stuck in that sort of situation, you could always fall 
back
on Old Reliable Ed. Now ed is certainly very bare-bones, but in a pinch, 
it
certainly gets the job done.

If you prefer having a prompt while editing, there's always ex, which is
really just vi in permanent  ':' mode. It's also pretty much the same as
ed, except you get a ':' prompt to show that you're not in insert mode.


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