Alessandro Selli wrote:

> 1) vi is a POSIX system requirement;
>    1b) it is thus a Unix universal tool (or is it the other way round? "It's
> a POSIX requirement because it's s Unix universal tool"?);

Bryan has answered that already.

> 2) it's powered by a regexp engine; most other command-line editors cannot,
>    say, take a one-line command that changes lines between 12 and
>    end-of-file to swap end-of-line blank characters into a smiley face :-)
> 3) it allows you to edit and run macros;

Both of which are entirely irrelevant as far as vi coverage in LPIC-1 is 
concerned. (Also, I believe macros are a vim feature, not a vi feature.)

Incidentally, issue (2) can also be taken care of using sed(1), which *is* in 
the LPIC-1 objectives.

> 4) for all of the above it's a tool to master for anyone who whished to be
>    bestown a serious server-room entrance pass.

So we're back to eating earthworms as a hazing ritual?

Anselm
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