debian editors

[skyking]

I use pico most of the time, but I miss a feature from my bsd days;
the line output. which editor will show me the line I am working on? let's say I have an error on line 103 of a certain config file. Using freebsd's edit for example, it showed me the line number of the file where I was at.
Edit: OK, I am dumb. I found the current position command.
I do miss the constant printout of current position though, and would like and editor that does that for me. and maybe makes me a cup of coffee..........

 

[kamper]

Vi (and vim) will keep numbers in the left column if you ":set number". They will also continually display line and column numbers at the bottom (actually, I can't even figure out how to turn that off )

 

[child of wonder]

pico? go to nano.

 

[Crusty]

On my Ubuntu box pico is linked to nano!

:/usr/bin$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/ | grep pico
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-01-14 15:49 pico -> /bin/nano

 

[Nothinman]

On my Ubuntu box pico is linked to nano!

Because nano is a free pico clone.