Henrik N. wrote:
> relatively easy to use. Also, does anyone else have any suggestions about
> "must have" console based applications?

first... well, no, i won't mention first.

second, screen: <http://freshmeat.net/projects/screen/> (just giving you
the link for references. you won't have to compile it, as slack has a
package for it.) it basically allows you to run more than one program on a
single virtual console. it has lots of other abilities, which you can read
about in the man page.

btw, the first suggestion was emacs. ;-)

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