From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 17:13:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00847 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:13:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu (arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.72.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00747 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu) Received: (from dannyman@localhost) by arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id TAA22413; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:12:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980415191237.50402@urh.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:12:37 -0500 From: dannyman To: Snob Art Genre , "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: Mike , Chuck Robey , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi Mail-Followup-To: Snob Art Genre , "Matthew D. Fuller" , Mike , Chuck Robey , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 06:10:44PM -0400 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/djhoward/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 06:10:44PM -0400, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > What're you going to say to a poor non-hacker when their system fails to > > mount their /usr partition, and you can just BARELY convince them that vi > > is usable? > > "Here's a floppy with a statically compiled version of ee on it. I can > understand not wanting to try to figure out vi when your system is > blowing up, in fact, I keep a (static) copy of ee in /bin for that same > reason." Indeed, ee would seem a better call, unless it's too bloated - not all syadmins know how to use vi, but ee is easy enough for even the 'leetest hackers to figure out when they're trying to ressurect /etc/fstab :) -- // dannyman yori aiokomete || Our Honored Symbol deserves \\/ http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ || an Honorable Retirement (UIUC) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message