Simone Piccardi wrote: > So apart its diffusion that can justify a single question on how to do > simple operation when nothing else is available (but still I do not find > such a system in years, and nano is installed by default in the most > common distributions), I do not see why a sysadmin should be capable > "Navigate a document using vi" when there is less or why beeing > proficient in vi should be more important that knowing how to use text > filters.
Hear, hear. As far as I'm concerned vi gets way more coverage in the exam than it deserves. But there are influential people here who are seriously infatuated with it, and therefore it will probably be with us for a very long time to come. It's probably considered some sort of rite of passage. > So I suggest to reduce the weight of 103.8 to 1 or at least 2, giving > more coverage to topics of 103.2 (promoting at least to 3) that are far > more important in sysadmin work. Especially since nowadays editing files on servers with minimal installations where vi is the only editor tends not to happen as much as it used to. In 2019, it's likely that people will simply throw the “server” (VM or container) away and auto-rebuild it from scratch with a new configuration that they have edited in their modern editor of choice (probably Visual Studio Code or something) on their comfortable high-powered graphical workstation. Even the LPIC-1 exam has caught on to the fact that containers and VMs exist, so there may yet be hope. If we can't get the weight of the vi topic down to 0 then weight 1 seems pretty reasonable to me. I agree with Simone that weight 3 is way too much as long as 103.2 is only weight 2. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau · [email protected] · https://www.tuxcademy.org Freie Schulungsmaterialien für Linux und Open-Source-Software Free Training Materials for Linux and Open-Source Software _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
