On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:47:34PM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:24:17AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:19, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and > > > using Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've > > > learned a few details. First, I have to use Vulgarly Illogical for my > > > text editor for the purposes of labs, tests, etc. As illustrated by > > > the previous sentence, I'm an emacs user. :) > > [...] > > I have to admit to the reverse prejudice. Cannot get all those ctl-X > > combinations into my head... > > > > Actually, there is also a reason to teach 'vi' in classes like that. We > all have our own personal preferences when it comes to editors, but the > reality still is that quite often when a system is half broken in single > user mode and one needs to edit this or that file to bring it back to life > 'vi' is the only editor available. Believe me, I've been doing technical > support for quite a while and had to walk a few sysadmins through the > painful process of editing in file using 'vi' when they had absolutely no > knowledge of the tool. I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the "standard tools", I use ed. I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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