On Aug 15, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Rich Greenberg wrote:
On: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:03:14PM -0500,Adam Thornton Wrote:
} On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
}
} >(1) Learn vi.
}
} Heretic.
Adam may call me a heretic also but I agree with Paul. While there
are
many other editors available on *ix and you can easily start a holy
war
over which is the best, vi is the editor that you can be sure is
there.
Want to install EMACS (aka Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping) or
THE or
any others on a newly installed *ix? Use vi to tailor the makefile
and
config files first.
Coming in as a consultant and the system doesn't have SuperEditorX
which
you are used to, and you don't have the time to learn SuperEditorY,
it will almost certainly have vi.
Rich is, I hate to say, right.
Very few systems will not have vi preinstalled.
Emacs is hardly ever already-just-there (yay OS X!).
So you SHOULD learn enough vi to get by.
Fortunately, that's pretty much: hjkl, 0 and $, escape, /, dd, x, i,
a, w, q, and !
Adam
