On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:20:50 -0800, Tom Brennan  wrote:

>    ...  I don't
>remember a single complaint about vi from them.  I did ask why (in the
>world) they used it, and they said because it's always available by
>default - no install needed.
> 
I have been cautioned by old-timers that I should master 'ex'
lest 'vi' be unavailable.

>... I used the editor that comes
>with Microsoft Visual Studio on Win 10, with Samba setup to
>automatically save the files from Windows over to the Linux box.  ....
>
Similarly, I've kept most of my data on a Solaris server with a
z/OS NFS client.  ISPF 3.17 or vi ad lib.  I set my Solaris
locale to ISO8859-1.  UTF-8 would have been a challenge.

-- gil

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