On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:54:12 -0600
Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> The biggest advantage to learning Vi is it's the only editor
> guaranteed to always be installed on every *nix box. You should at
> least know the basics.
I agree with Stuart on this point. Everyone who plans to use a unix or
unix-like (a.k.a. linux) system ought to learn the basics of editing
with vi. I used to say the same about ed, but at this point I'm not
sure if ed is even included on all systems. (You haven't lived until
you've fixed a corrupted passwd file with ed in single user mode... or
even better with while, echo, and read.)
> Once upon a time, the stereotypical break down was: Vi for sysadmins,
> Emacs for developers.
I'd agree with this, too. In general, I start an emacs up when I
log in and use it for daily editing tasks. I generally only start
one emacs session as it can easily bring up multiple frames (a.k.a.
windows) when needed. When I need to wear my sysadmin hat, on the
other hand, I'll most likely use vi because it starts up very fast
(emacs can be kind of a pig).
I think it's useful to learn the basics of both editors. Someone
already posted a vi quick reference (or was that a vim quick
reference?), so let me give you the same thing in emacs. Start emacs.
Type "control-h" followed by "t". Now you're looking at the emacs
tutorial. Read through it. It will tell you everything you need to
know.
Oh, and for the uncertain, it's pronounced "vee eye", not "vye"... and
never "six". Vim, I believe, is pronounced to rhyme with "whim" (but
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong :-).
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
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