Ian Shields wrote: > As long as nothing else is as universally distributed with a basic Linux > setup, we need vi skills - love vi or hate it.
Vi is like chemotherapy. It's a nasty business. There are legitimate situations where there's really no alternative to chemotherapy but that doesn't mean everyone should have it all the time. I'm absolutely in favour of encouraging people to spend 10 minutes with vimtutor in order to get a handle on the basic functionality of vi, in case they need it, which for Linux system administrators is unfortunately not at all unlikely. So therefore I don't have a big issue with having one question on the LPIC-1 exam that deals with vi, just to place a scent mark. But in all fairness, three is too many. I'd much rather ask people two additional questions about the shell and/or the text processing toolkit and/or for that matter systemd, because that does more justice to these topics, which are on the one hand much more interesting, challenging, multi-faceted, thought- provoking, and fun than text editing with vi and on the other hand just as essential to keeping a Linux system running smoothly as text editing with vi. 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
