command line alternatives

[bumodo]

Hello everyone. I have just compleated installation of slackware 10.2 on an umm vintage laptop. (200mhz 24mb ram) and x runs horribly. But um yeah that is not the point, i didnt really expect to be able to use x, i want to use only command line programs but i must confess, I have been using suse 10 for about a year and have had to do minimual command line work.

So yeah on to my question. What are in your opinons the best programs for every day use that can be run from the command line. By every day use i mean office type word processing, email, chat, music playing, browsing, and the like. I am open to any and all advice on the subject.

Thanks
Dan

[antidrugue]

office type word processing, email, chat, music playing, browsing, and the like. I am open to any and all advice on the subject.

Browsing: links, links2, elinks, elinks-lite, lynx
email : pine
chat : *****x (the letters are b, i, t, c, h, x : a nice IRC client)

[vlsimpson]

Web: lynx
mail: mutt, pine, nail
file manager: mc (Midnight Commander)
cd's: workbone
editor: emacs

[Javasnob]

Here's some more:

Music: cplay
Videos: mplayer w/framebuffer support, or aalib for the adventurous =P
AIM: pork or naim
Another editor: vim

[bumodo]

Thanks much for the replys. found most of them to be helpful, esspecially about mc, pine, and b*tchx, I still have not found a word process that i find satasfactory but perhaps i have not given emacs or vi a long enough try.