Craig Sanders wrote: > being restricted to a primitive editor after you have become > proficient with vi is akin to re-learning how to talk after having a > stroke...you've lost some really fundamental ability which you take > for granted.
This sounds like a great arguement to use any editor other than vi for anything. In order to protect new users from the evils of vi, lets replace vi with a script that echos: "The use of vi can cause learning disabilties, as though you had a stroke" If you can't figure out how to use ae (in a not vi emulation mode), are you sure you want to install Linux on your own? As far as a recovery disk goes, you are much better off with a real recovery disk. The boot disk is severely crippled when compared to other recovery disks that are readily available. Mark Blunier