On 29/07/19 at 21:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I would even go so far as saying we should retire vi entirely as > required knowledge and be content with knowing what EDITOR does.
I do agree that the importance set on vi is excessive, but to me the basics of vi must stay. LPI is the reference certification for many BSD people, too, and maybe also of what are left of Solaris sysadmins, and backw^W faithful to the old ways like they are vi is of paramount importance to them. Maybe also most AIX people would go for LPI for a widely known and appreciated Unix certification. Plus, mostly for historical reasons, vi must be available on any Unix system and in fact AFAIK it is, even in distros that install nano by default. People better be aware of it. Junior sysadmins often have to put their hands on system other sysadmins, may be gray-bearded and bald ones, have setup up to their likes. On these systems the VISUAL variable might be set to vi, and VISUAL overrides EDITOR, as you well know! ;-) -- Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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