on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:43:20PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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. > > That really doesn't make sense. I mean if you use emacs, nano, etc, they > should all also be available in single user mode.
Depends on your partitioning scheme, and how/why you're in single user mode. If you keep /usr as a separate partition from /, then you may find your $BLOATED_PREFERRED_EDITOR isn't available. In this case, familiarity with a traditional 'Nix editor such as vi may be a very valuable skill. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence of course. And infinite sorrow. And..." -- HHGTG
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