How do I edit / create a text file (i.e. wheres my notepad)?
There are several text editors on UNIX. Probably the most user-friendly is ‘pico’. You create or edit a file by typing: ‘pico filename’ or ‘pico filename.txt’ (if you really care to have the ”.txt” there) *technical* Other editors on the system include vi, vim, emacs, and xemacs. If you are doing development I strongly recommend emacs or xemacs, both of which can be forwarded to your box if you have an Xserver running (such as Exceed) or are on a UNIX box. Remember to enable X forwarding through SSH on your end as well. Vim is a far more complex and configurable console editor. E-mail root@stwing if you want help with configuring it; I personally like it far better then pico.
