From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 8 18:32:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CB3D37B406 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22153 invoked by uid 50005); 9 Oct 2001 01:28:21 -0000 Received: from tms2@mail.ptd.net by smtpb with qmail-scanner-1.00 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4164. . Clean. Processed in 0.270947 secs); 09 Oct 2001 01:28:21 -0000 Received: from du211010.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.211.10]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpb.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Oct 2001 01:28:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3BC24D1C.1AFD7F2F@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:04:28 -0400 From: "T.M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: code density vs readability References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20011002135226.A33832@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20011002142257.C98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > j mckitrick writes: > > > I finally took several people's advice. I didn't give up VI, but emacs > > is amazing for big, complicated jobs. > > I've been using only Emacs (actually mostly XEmacs and some small Emacs > clones like Jed) for a long time, but recently decided it would be > better to try to force myself to use vi for editing as root. (I learned > it 20 years ago and liked the two-mode concept, but I've forgotten all > but the very basics.) > > I got to worrying about the amount of Emacs code there is and to suspect > that much of it changes often and is seen by only a few eyes and am > thinking it will be safer from a security standpoint to run vi. > > Is that overly paranoid? Do other people have this concern? Do many > people run XEmacs or Emacs as root on a regular basis? Does vim have a > lot of similarly suspectable code in it too? If memory serves, the Great Worm of '88 exploited a security hole in Emacs (among other things). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message