From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 20:45:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D965537B41D for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:45:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NRfC-000CsL-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:45:34 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id 79C21117C; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:45:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 05:45:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Editors in base FBSD Message-ID: <20020107044533.GB1368@raggedclown.net> References: <20020107102311.G45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020107005820.GA10865@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020107005820.GA10865@student.uu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:58:20AM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 07:45:02PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > > But I really need a native FBSD edit solution for disaster recovery > > where the mswindows LAN is down or not present at that site. > > Oh, so you are talking about exceptional situations...(or perhaps not ?). Just learn "vi/ex". Vi is powerful and ugly, but it is always there. If you have the responsibility of understanding how to manage complex networks, then I am sure you are bright enough to master at least the basic functionality of vi. The commands you actually need for basic use can be written on a single sheet of paper. So learn: - How to open, read and write files. - Learn how to write then exit ("ZZ" command for your info) - How to insert text, delete text, undelete text - learn how to search for text - learn how to substitute text If you find regular expressions too difficult to work with then don't bother with them (this only limits your use of about a million other Unix tools, but never mind about that). Remember that if things look like they are all going wrong just hit a few times and check you have not got caps-lock on. And stop trolling. You are hovering on the edge of my troll-reject list here .. :) You have had answers, choose the one you find least-offensive, or write your own editor. Hee hee, I have to laugh when people make some kind of comparisons with MVS on any subject, having had to work once for a mercifully brief time under TSO...still, I must rememember my New Year's resolution about not providing comestibles to trolls. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message