I know for example about Lynx for browsing the web. I'm mediocre with Nano. (Grew up with the Wordstar keystrokes; trying to find something close to that) But after that, I'm kinda stuck.
I do not use it myself but I think joe uses wordstar keystrokes.
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]]>Call it masochistic (or just stupid), as an experiment I'm going to try, for a month anyway, to run 100% console mode.
You would be surprised by the amount of people that actualy use a computer this way.
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links-g
gpm
irssi
screen
bitlbee
mutt
snownews - I think I used to use that for RSS
and last but not least - RSS
As far as text editing, learn vi...it's a pain in the beginning but once you get it down it's the best out there.
]]>IRSSI obviously, Pidgin has an Ncurses type interface which is a lil ugly - but it works
You can do IM in irssi by using bitlbee.
]]>There's just one place where my setup falls down:
There is no console based app analogous to nm-applet
I've come across two projects to make one, both of which appear to be dead
Anyway, Links is my browser of choice from the console, Transmission works via console, Screen is a must, IRSSI obviously, Pidgin has an Ncurses type interface which is a lil ugly - but it works, I use mplayer for playing/streaming audio..
]]>This little experiment has already proven very educational for me. I was working under the assumption that the real "power" of the OS is coming from whatever window manager I'm using, and the "Linux guts" is just providing a backend. Think older Windows 95 sitting on top of DOS. Horribly wrong of course. Starting to get a real appreciation for the power of this operating system. Realizing now that the window manager is just a convenience, not a requirement to be able to do anything like Windows. So far I've been able to do pretty much everything I used to do in a GUI, just not as pretty.
Going to be very educational, having a blast so far. Yea I'm sure its old news for you guys, but cut an ex-MS drone some slack lol.
Thanks again
]]>good luck
]]>The other editor you may wish to use is pico which can be easily set to use wordstar bindings. (Aside, pico was developed by a wordstar dev, iirc.) I also very happy to use rsync, as my other method of dealing with files (moving, copying, backing up...etc). I think axyftp is a client (haven't got it installed so look this one up), and if not try ncftp.
[edit] Coincidentally I found a podcast that may interest you and others from a website called Linux Reality. Give it a listen if you want to hear a podcast all about command line use & applications for it. http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/epi … -line-fun/
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