On 27/09/05, Nick Rout wrote:
> It also took me ages to realise that *nix users aren't always being
> literal, and that instructions like:
>
> vi /etc/passwd
>
> didn't actually mean you had to master vi, they just meant "use your
> favourite editor to make the following changes to /etc/passwd"

Then why don't they write:
$EDITOR /etc/passwd
instead?

Yuri
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