Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose
Overview
In This Chapter
What is a text editor?
What is a text formatter?
What is a word processor?
What is a desktop publishing program?
Using vi if you absolutely have to
Using emacs , which is not that bad, really
Using pico , which works rather well
Using ed if you don’t have anything better
In the land of UNIX, many programs handle text. Where you come from, you may be accustomed to the idea of using a word processor when you want to type something and print it. Not in UNIX. It has four kinds of programs for this task, just to keep things interesting.