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It would appear that on Jun 4, Brant Katkansky did say:
In the nearly 18 or so years that I've been using vi, I've come
to love it. Never really tried Emacs, and I consider a lot of the
alternative console editors in Linux to be toys by comparison, though I must admit I never really took time to learn them properly.
Likewise, I haven't found a GUI editor that suited me... Though I must admit I use a GUI primarily as a platform for running xterms.
I guess it matters to whether you like to use an electric screwdriver over a manual screwdriver, in comparison.
You might find some disagreement over which one was the electric and which one was the manual. ;-)
The wonders of may alternatives to getting the same results.
Indeed.
I too never really gave emacs a shot. I had to work at it to learn vi,
then once I discovered vim there was no turning back. In fact about the
only time I ever open a text file with anything else is when I want to
copy long texts to some gui application in one copy/paste. IE composing
something for pasting into some web forums text input box with vim,
spellchecking it with aspell then opening it with kwrite so the file
will scroll when the mouse marking extends past the end of the current
xterm view...
And as far as which one is the electric screwdriver, there would definitely be much disagreement about it. But let us not start down the path that once led to the fabled vi/emacs holy wars shall we. ;)
Linux, it's all about having alternatives.
From the requirements that the original poster needed, I see that a GUI tool would be quite effective. The tool is just capable for changing the timeout and setting the default kernel/ alternate OS. (system-config-boot)
I think the tool is decent to just change these parameters. Messing with the grub.conf by most people that just want a system that is easily configurable is a good thing, IMO, to make Linux easier to manage for those who might just want to setup basic tasks on their system.
I think that knowing what all of the entries in the config files is ideal, but not touching the files directly, but through a tool is the safer approach for future and a wider user base.
I wouldn't even try to compare which application is the best to use to edit files. I do see my tendacies going toward using GUI editors with a cut and past, plus a history list for recently opened documents. I use mc and it's builtin editor less now than before.
No GUI vs. CLI or best editor arguments here.
Jim
-- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Maslow
