On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 5:21 AM Simone Piccardi <[email protected]> wrote:

> As we are discussing, this seems to me more and more a rite of passage.
> And not in the sense of a common knowledge shared by people, but like an
> initiation to be part of the sect of the "vi only editing" sysadmin.
>

Perhaps it comes down to your environment.  When I control it, I have
everything I want.  When I'm out consulting, that control is gone.  In
those cases, I view vi as a tool of last resort....and one I have to resort
to often.  And it sure beats editing config files with sed or ed.

Sure, containers are changing this dynamic but they aren't ubiquitous yet.
I think Bryan's onto something with the break-fix vs rebuild-fix idea,
too.  In that regard, the two most commonly requested additions to the
objectives are more security and more troubleshooting (aka break-fix?).
The latter of which may or may not include text editing.
--matt

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G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>                         gpg id: 0x17CF9077
Executive Director, Linux Professional Institute
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