On 17/02/11 14:52 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > >> Of course. Been there, done that, on a dial-up terminal with a thermal >> printer at 110 baud over an acoustic coupler. If you know how to use >> sed you probably can suss out ed. I had to know how to use edlin in >> DOS, too. But if you had vi at all, you also had ex, so that was a >> much better option. > > Yup. I never really learned ex, but I used it a few times. And of > course vi on the inside has ex-like commands.
vi, at least originally, was just a full-screen front end on ex, so vi is more than ex-like, it *is* ex. If you install vim today, ex is just a symbolic link to vim, and when vim detects that it has been started up as ex it just goes into ex mode; if you type the "visual" command, it reverts to full screen vi mode. > I actually kept my old keyboards until they fell apart and then remapped > keys both, but if you are a sysadmin you have to be able to sit down at > a user's keyboard and work smoothly. Smoothly does not involve turning > on caps lock every time you try to move the cursor or page up or down or > delete to end of line or... > > So you have to pretty much go with what is standard, even if it is > painful and annoying. In fact; I never went to the trouble of getting one of those. On any given day I use might use a half-dozen different keyboards, from a little netbook to a giant Microsoft "Natural" keyboard. After you do that for enough years it is all the same. --Bob _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
