Bizarre holdover ? Far from it vim is alive and kicking :) On 10 Apr 2015 21:36, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/04/2015 22:23, Alexandru Juncu wrote: > > On 10 April 2015 at 22:01, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 10/04/2015 21:53, Bruno Ferreira wrote: > >>> Please, just dont. > >>> I use vi everyday.Also is present on every Unix. > >> > >> No-one is talking about removing vi from distros. > >> > >> The question is should vi be *on the exam* which is something else > >> entirely. > >> > > > > Yes, and the exam is based on things that are used/available on > > mainstream distributions. > > So, since vim is, by popular demand, (probably) universally available, > > it's worth keeping. > > > > Also, I bet that there are a lot of people of there that would say > > "you can pry vim from my cold hands" :)) > > > Yes, I am one of them. > > I also don't expect anyone else to know, or even care about, vi and/or > vim. It's a bizarre holdover from the 70's when 80x25 screens were still > awesome. Don't let your attachment to vi cloud your judgement as to > whether it is exam-worthy or not. > > Look, just because a piece of software has been around since the dawn of > time and is generally useful does not mean that driving it is required > knowledge. Yes, vi is everywhere, and so is nano/joe/pico etc. The last > Unix I touched that had vi and only vi as an editor was IIRC a absolute > minimalist FreeBSD-5 and that was 7 or more years ago. > > Times change, distros move on, new admins discard old tools. We should > all learn to deal with it and realize that vi is no longer king of that > mountain. > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > lpi-discuss@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss >
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