From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 12:19:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB74337B416 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:19:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAJKJhT71152; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:19:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200111192019.fAJKJhT71152@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Kirchner , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vi a Joke ? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:12:41 PST." <20011119121228.A9030-100000@localhost> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:19:43 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David dabbled > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > > One point people forget and that is what can you use when you mess up > > rc.conf and your system will only boot into single user mode. Learning > > vi at that point is a painic :). > At that point it is nice to know how to use "ed". :-) as I found out the hard way a couple of months ago :) vim is on /usr, and if you're hitting single user becuase of a problem with /usr, ed is all there is. Fortunately, ed is rather obvious to the vi user--I hadn't used it in over 15 years, and did just fine. hawk -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message