Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:57:13 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Dustin Lang <dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ramblings from a Newbie... Message-ID: <19990602135713.A38175@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990530005118.9491e-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Sun, May 30, 1999 at 01:07:06AM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990529215543.18774C-100000@netinfo3.ubc.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990530005118.9491e-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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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 <chris@calldei.com> Real programs don't eat cache. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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