Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:52:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the place of vi Message-ID: <19980416135236.I1090@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980415191237.50402@urh.uiuc.edu>; from dannyman on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 07:12:37PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414080743.23505A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980415180848.17256F-100000@echonyc.com> <19980415191237.50402@urh.uiuc.edu>
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(moved to -chat) On Wed, 15 April 1998 at 19:12:37 -0500, dannyman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 06:10:44PM -0400, Snob Art Genre wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >> >>> What're you going to say to a poor non-hacker when their system fails to >>> mount their /usr partition, and you can just BARELY convince them that vi >>> is usable? >> >> "Here's a floppy with a statically compiled version of ee on it. I can >> understand not wanting to try to figure out vi when your system is >> blowing up, in fact, I keep a (static) copy of ee in /bin for that same >> reason." > > Indeed, ee would seem a better call, unless it's too bloated - not all > syadmins know how to use vi, but ee is easy enough for even the 'leetest > hackers to figure out when they're trying to ressurect /etc/fstab :) The great advantage of vi is that it's available everywhere. I use Emacs for real work, but it's a pain to use on a character terminal, so I use vi there. I need to know vi for dozens of reasons. Why make me learn a tu^Hhird editor? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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