Text Editors

Question 1

What are the types of editors?

Answer 1

1. Line Editor
   a. ed
   b. ex
2. Terminal Editors
   a. pico , ai)nano
   b. vi
   c. emacs
3. GUI Editors
   a. KDE –> kate, kwrite
   b. Gnome— >gedit
   c. sublime
   d. atom
   e. brackets
4. IDE
   a. eclipse
   b. Bluefish
   c. NetBeans

Question 2

What are the expected features of an editor?

Question 13

What command is used to check the path of pico or nano editors?

Answer 13

which pico
which nano

Question 14

how to open a file for editing with nano / pico editor?

Answer 14

nano <filename>
pico <filename></filename></filename>

Question 15

What are the modes of vi editor?

Answer 15

1. Command mode (Esc)
2. Insert Mode ( i,I ,o, O ,a, A)
3. ex mode (:)

Question 16

How to activate line numbers in vi editor?

Answer 16

use command se nu
to turn off use command se nonu

Question 17

What is secure copy ?

Question 18

how to unzip a tar file ?

Answer 18

tar -xvf code3d.tar

Question 19

What does command dmsg do?

Answer 19

dmsg displays all error system messages
we could save this as a file using redirection like

dmsg > dmsg.txt