From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 05:23:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070361065673 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:23:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9738D8FC15 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:23:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5Q5NLnN050395; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090626052317.GB32901@thought.org> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906261033.58894.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626045808.fb3b0c8d.freebsd@edvax.de> <200906261203.23172.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626061157.4e846d36.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090626061157.4e846d36.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:05:13 +0000 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf1783@googlemail.com, Manish Jain , Erik Osterholm , Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi, X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:23:40 -0000 On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 06:11:57AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:03:21 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > What kind of editor do you need for rescue? Just edit one or two > > lines in some config file to allow the full system to start > > again. > > > > Rescue does not need an editor programmers are used to edit their > > source files. > > I won't say anything different. For the usual "maintenance and > get the damn thing working again" tasks the /rescue editor, > especially vi, should be enough. Commands are i, a, and :wq. > >From my experience, I can't remember to have used anything > else. > what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]? why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O [open line below/Above], and \search and that's 97 and 44/100ths of what you'll ever need. gary ps: when bill j. dies and meets st. pete at the pearly gate, pete'll say: "So what did you do--" And bill will say, "I wrote vi." red-carpet is rolled out :_) > > > -- > Polytropon > >From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php