Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:12:37 -0500 From: dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Mike <mike@seidata.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi Message-ID: <19980415191237.50402@urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980415180848.17256F-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 06:10:44PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414080743.23505A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980415180848.17256F-100000@echonyc.com>
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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
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