SSH shell: He says "Let there be colors" Shell Beginner Guid

John Bean wrote:

You put a lot of effort into this, well done. One criticism is that although your focus appears to be on Linux "newbies" you then go on to frighten them off with vi (and vim), a complete overkill for the sort of editing your target audience is likely to do. My recommendation would be to completely ignore vi unless you're already familiar with it, instead install a simple editor like nano by typing "apt-get install nano" - this was the very first command I typed on my first ssh session ;-)

Thanks I appreciate.

You're absolutely right, I could have spoken of Nano, but honnestly I'm not even sure I know how to use it, I mean as correctly as Vim :lol:
I've learned Linux the Slackware-vi-hard way :)

Sure, Vim might not be the easiest way to approach Linux, but once you know you're way round with it, it's kinda magic ;)
My point is to give people the envy to look a little further by themself. I'm just trying to remove the fright of the "first time" & show that "Yes, Linux can be Fun too"

[EDIT] Moreover, I've just remember that Nano doesn't offer colorful syntax highlighting by default, and it required A LOOOT of code in the .nanorc file to enable this. As this mini-howto was about colors too, Nano would have been more complicated to explain finally.