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. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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.
