On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote:
> Mark Wendt wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:27 PM, dave <dengv...@charter.net> wrote: > > > >> A friend of mine simply says "vi is vile". > >> However, if you happen to think the way it does then it make sense else > >> go searching for an alternative. > >> Good luck. ;-) > >> > >> Dave > >> > > > > Been a Unix/VMS system and network admin for over 20 years now. vi is > > still my primary editor. The developers seem to like emacs and xemacs. > > Another old retired sysadmin I know won't use anything other than Jove. > > Like Kent said, there's no tellin' for taste. ;-) > > > URRRppp! I have had to struggle with vi occasionally when setting up a > new system, > to edit network files so I could download emacs. I can barely make it > save a file. > (Just lack of training on it, probably.) > > Jon > It's all in what you're used to I'd guess. I forced myself to learn sed and awk too. Those two caused much indigestion. I now use them only when I have to. Much easier to throw a perl script together. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
