On 10/04/2015 at 23:06, Anselm Lingnau wrote: [...]
> PS. If this is all about teaching people an editor that exists > everywhere and works always, then we should be teaching them ed. Vi > is for softies who can't do without a cell-addressable terminal. Well, one of the things that I appreciate the most of vi (and that I train my students on) is the possibility, within vi, to: 1) remove all end-of-line blank characters everywhere on the input buffer; 2) insert a leading tab on every line that starts with an upper-case letter from line 3 to the end-of-file; 3) search an empty line and jump to the next one and so on. Granted, vi does show it's age when it comes to user interface, but it's a good testbed as a regular expression engine, and it's also an editor! nano just doesn't fit as a replacement, and it's the only editor that can be granted to have preinstalled in most current distributions besides vi. Plus, vi is the default editor for many commands that implicitly use one, such as vipw, visudo or crontab -e, when neither VISUAL nor EDITOR are set or no other relevant distribution-specific setting is configured. Pepole ought to be ready to face the cascade of tildes neatly lined up on column #1 when they run such a command. _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list lpi-discuss@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
