Oh, and in a pinch ed or sed can be your friend. On Tuesday 18 February 2003 08:01 pm, you wrote: > > > I want to avoid the Vi editor at all costs. The hour I > > > > worked on it at > > > > > an IBM class for AIX long ago convinced me I want to stay > > > > away from Vi. > > [...] > > My point is that it might seem like the most efficient thing > > to bring your > > 'favourite editor' to your new platform. However, consider > > the amount of > > editing you'll be doing and whether it might just be easier to spend a > > little time getting to know one/some of the platform's native editors. > > And you need to have at least a little knowledge of the other editors so > that you don't get stuck on a system without being able to edit anything > -- especially when you break network connectivity and you have to try to > edit something on the 3270 console and vi in line mode is the only thing > that will run. > > You really need only a little vi to get by -- I use it only to get Emacs > loaded and running...8-) > > -- db > > > Cheers, > > Vic Cross
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