Re: What editors are in base?
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> When I was in school, my UNIX teacher had one immutable law;
> "Thou shalt learn vi". His argument was that no matter what
> flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a
> unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I
> have to admit there have been times I was very grateful he made
> me learn it. Having worked with at least 9 flavors of unix,
> it was the most valuable lesson I learned in school.
I learned ed for the same purpose. And vi... It was the first Unix
editor I learned. I still use it. I use emacs for programming and vi
for small things (like configuration etc.). And ed... When there is
no other choice, e.g., when I work from a dumb terminal (or when I
can't find the terminal emulation I need, because every one of them is
buggy, or the terminal I work on isn't supported by normal OSs), or
when I have no vi yet (the system is not fully installed)).
BTW, if vi is too big for base, put ed there ;)
Vadik.
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Vadim Vygonets * vadik@cs.huji.ac.il * vadik@debian.org * Unix admin
If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected
abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was
the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.
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