[plug] re: editing

[Oliver White]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > 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.

I use vi mostly because it's lean. The learning curve for Emacs is just
to steep to be bothered at this stage, but may learn it as I take on
some larger programming projects. Nedit is also nice, but has some
annoying bugs.