From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 2 11:57:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A55D15305 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip137.houston2.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.201.137]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08C9370AC; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:57:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA38287; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:57:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:57:13 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Dustin Lang , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ramblings from a Newbie... Message-ID: <19990602135713.A38175@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, May 30, 1999 at 01:07:06AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 30, 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Not only programmers and administrators benifit from vi but at my last > job it was even a requirement for the HTML people. It'll also save > your skin when/if you ever have to do something on a bare-install > commercial unix, as they mostly don't come equiped with anything > besides vi. > > learn vi, it's good for you. ed is probably more abundant than vi, and has similar syntax, although it's tons harder to understand where you are in a file. I once wrote a perl script in it just for fun -- it wasn't that hard once you realize that you're not in vi anymore. -- Chris Costello Real programs don't eat cache. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message