Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:53:04 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi Message-ID: <3587F470.1228F1D8@boothman.easynet.co.uk> References: <3.0.5.32.19980616212412.007ee350@mx.serv.net>
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Tim, I think you're being a bit harsh here. There are without doubt those who would run you over in the street for insulting vi and its ilk, but from what people have said here I do not believe anybody on this list fits into that category. Some are simply of the opinion that a bit of knowledge of vi would be a good thing, because it is installed on every UNIX machine since time began, and you wouldn't need to carry anything around on a floppy. I for one can say that Sun with their whizzy SunOS/Openwindows hybrid called Solaris, that comes with all sorts of GUI administration tools, still include vi on their system administrators course because it is so widely used. (Needless to say it wasn't me who went on the course :-( But I spoke to the man that did) Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > No. The simple fact is, I don't want to right now, and don't yet see the > point in doing so. Personally, I believe this thread got heated because I > basically insulted an original, holy Unix text editor. Thou shalt not > denigrate Vi.. it's in the Unix Bible. So anyway, here are these Unix > old-timers hanging around this group for whatever reason (to help out, for > amusement purposes watching newbies blunder around, whatever) and along > comes this Windows guy who puts down one of the *nix commands that's been > around since 1945 or so. How dare he? Thou hath insulted the great Vi. > That's how I'm seeing it at this point, anyway. -- Andrew Boothman : andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~boothman/andrew/) "Do geography teachers eat Water Table biscuits?" - Me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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