[plug] re: editing

[John Summerfield]

> on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:03:57AM +0800, Peter Caffin <pc at it.net.au> wrote:
> > Being forced to use the antiquated mess that is SCO in my last job
> > reinforced the need to keep my vi skills intact for future crappy old
> > UNIXes I may yet encounter.
> 
> It may be an crappy old unix that doesnt have other editors installed OR
> it may be your machine is not booting and you only have your root
> partition OR it may be some program chucks you into vi to edit a file
> 'cause vi is the default. 

I found having learned vi incredibly useful one day when I discovered I'd 
installed Linux on my daughter's computer, and the only editor to hand was 
ed.

It wouldn't have been quite so serious if the machine handn't been removed 
from the LAN.


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