+1

Best regards
Le 12 avr. 2015 15:08, "Alessandro Selli" <alessandrose...@linux.com> a
écrit :

> 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
>
_______________________________________________
lpi-discuss mailing list
lpi-discuss@lpi.org
http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss

Reply via email to