Terminal Text-Editors

This lesson introduces the basics of using text-editors in terminal environments, including opening, editing, saving, closing, and searching for text within files. These operations are discussed for the three most popular text-editors of nano, Vim, and Emacs.

Lesson Outline

Introduction (index.md)

A brief overview of the lesson and its contents.

Nano (01_nano.md)

Describing the basic commands and benefits of the nano text-editor.

Vim (02_vim.md)

Describing the basic commands and benefits of the vim text-editor.

Emacs (03_emacs.md)

Describing the basic commands and benefits of the Emacs text-editor.

Requirements

• GNU/Linux installation

License

This lesson is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License