John Carter wrote: > Have you ever found yourself trying to fix stuff on a minimal install > box, that doesn't have emacs as yet?
I used to love emacs, for many years it was basically my shell :-) However, I've spent a lot of time working on other people's servers, and don't always have the opportunity to install extra software. I'd tend to say that if you *don't* know how to do minimal edits in vi, then you will have severe problems working on new/other machines. Many of you are not in this situation, being workstation administrators. But the rest of you ... ? -jim
