Re: Gotta Learn Vi . . . . . . (was Re: [tlug] [Newbie] Becoming 'root' in Kubuntu: Use sudo)

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:45:17PM -0600, David J Iannucci wrote:

Columbus Jim wrote

> > Regardless of how you much loath vi, you should learn how to use it,
> > because it is on more *nix systems than any other editor (besides
> > cat). 
> 
> I was playing around with a new distro recently (I'm almost certain it
> was Sabayon, the new "BE" (business edition) live CD), and was shocked
> to find that vim was not available (nor of course vi), although emacs
> was.  There's gotta be someone's personal axe-grinding underlying that
> decision :-)

I remember when Gentoo was first out, it didn't include vi, only nano.
Many of us would edit make.conf, only to have the original build fail
after several hours because, out of habit, we had put :x or :wq at the
end of make.conf.  (I was the first to publicly admit it, then there
were a flood of "Me too," posts.)  :)


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