Text Editors and Email
Up to this point in this book, I've made the assumption that text editing and emailing would take place in Gnome windows.
Under Gnome, to edit text you can use one of the GUI desktop environment editors, such as Gnotepad+. Netscape Messenger is available for email.
However, what if Windows-like desktop environments don't make you feel all warm and gui inside? That's okay. If you like to edit your text using a nonwindowing application, there are many good choices available.
In this section, I'll give you a brief high-level look at two of the more popular text editors available, vi and Pico, and briefly mention emacs. Which, if any, you choose to use is, of course, up to you.
One reason you might want to use text-based utilities ...
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