Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 02:50:26 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se>, "FreeBSD-newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Enough is enough (About Unix) Message-ID: <00e101c0a94f$ea6b8780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010310110336.A8589@strindberg.maisel.enst-bretagne.fr>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jesper Holmberg > >Now, I have have yet another small question: should I use Emacs or Vi >for editing? > Use vi - if you learn it then it will screw with the heads of anyone watching you edit files over your shoulder. :-) >Sorry, that was a joke. > There's an excellent version of vi that runs under MS-DOS called Calvin when I was doing more support of older DOS systems years ago I used this editor exclusively. It was small enough to fit on a boot floppy and could edit files of any size - hundreds and hundreds of megabytes in size, actually. It helped me greatly to use it daily, and vi is the one editor that I've found that has been ported to just about every operating system. Even OS/2 has a version. Whatever editor you do use, though, make absolutley sure that the editor doesen't replace tabs with spaces, and also get very familiar with how to recognize how the editor represents trailing spaces on lines. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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