Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:39:34 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <20011002193933.A148@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <dxitdxlx44.tdx@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0700 References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <p05100334b7d8e6544d17@[194.78.144.27]> <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20011002135226.A33832@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20011002142257.C98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <dxitdxlx44.tdx@localhost.localdomain>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: | I've been using only Emacs (actually mostly XEmacs and some small Emacs That's what I use: Xemacs. But only for large(r) coding projects. | clones like Jed) for a long time, but recently decided it would be | better to try to force myself to use vi for editing as root. (I learned When I am working on scripts or config files on the local machine, I use vi. I use only vi when running as root. | I got to worrying about the amount of Emacs code there is and to suspect | that much of it changes often and is seen by only a few eyes and am | thinking it will be safer from a security standpoint to run vi. I guess that is possible. I use vi in my shell accounts just because it is faster, easier to setup for useful tasks, and less of a resource hog. And it might be more secure as well, I don't know. | (I say this as someone who just installed as root a bunch of ports from | all over the world which ran their install (I hope) scripts as root.) Say, could I have your IP address? ;-) jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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