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 -- 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] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
