[ I'm forking this discussion into a new arc, which is more viable of a
discussion IMPO ]

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:29 PM Anselm Lingnau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Big deal. 10 minutes with vimtutor should fix that.
>

All the more reason for the 10 minutes VIMtutor to be part of any LPIC-1
course.  ;)

Just like 10 minute tutorials on ...
 - Regex/Sed
 - Piping/Redirection
 - Yum-RPM
 - Apt-DPKG
 - Etc...

Again, I try to 'see the other side.'  So, I would strongly make the case
that if we're going to take away things from the history of 'interactive
break-fix,; we should really looking at changing LPIC-1.  Here are some of
my ideas ...


A) New 101 + 102 focus ...

Make 101 the 'common denominator' with a new set of optional 102, 103,
etc... exams.

102 - anything legacy we want to demote or remove from 101+102, like ViM,
interactive tools, MySQL/MariaDB stuff that comes up often, etc...

103 - a new automation/orchestration option, even add some more DB tooling
and other things 'in the real world' for junior admins?  Again, the
MySQL/MariaDB stuff comes up regularly too.


B) Alternative 111 + 112 track ...

This would be a new 'automation/orchestration' track, that is purely
non-interactive

Others?


> We should certainly not suggest to candidates that in 2019, vi is an
> editor
> that is recommended to use day in, day out, especially for editing non-
> configuration files in non-emergencies. (Vim might be.)


I think you're making this too much about Vi v. ViM.

If you want to say there should only be Vi (and not ViM) on the objectives,
point made.  I utterly agree.  But it must be known in the 'interactive'
focused exams/tracks.

In any case, I think this is far more about than just Vi.

- bjs
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