On 10 April 2015 at 22:40, Andrzej Szczygielski <[email protected]> wrote: > Old tools ? > Yes they are old but nothing compares to them not even close !
I'll second that. The fact that it has been around for a long time, it doesn't make it 'old'. Vim still one being actively developed: https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/list There is also a fork that made some waves recently (https://github.com/neovim/neovim) The idea is that vim is not going anywhere. > > On 10 Apr 2015 21:36, "Alan McKinnon" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 10/04/2015 22:23, Alexandru Juncu wrote: >> > On 10 April 2015 at 22:01, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> >> > 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 >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lpi-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
