Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote:

>   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.

I think these go way beyond what the LPI-101 exam requires.

Also, this is not an argument against ed(1). Ed(1) can do all of these
too, and everywhere – it doesn't require one of those wimpy
cell-addressable terminals.

Anselm
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