HI All, vi/vim is must user for all SysAdmins.
For Linux Users, is nano, because no complicat, both need present on LPIC-1. vi is native for all distribution Linux 2017-10-16 8:35 GMT-02:00 G. Matthew Rice <m...@starnix.com>: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:26 AM, Alessandro Selli > <alessandrose...@linux.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 at 01:40:27 +0200 Anselm Lingnau < > ans...@tuxcademy.org> wrote: > >> I'm 100% in favour of getting rid of editors altogether in LPIC-1, on > the > >> grounds that: > >> > >> (a) there is no clear consensus on which editor(s) should be covered, > and > >> there is certainly no consensus of any kind as to which specific > editor > >> is “best” for day-to-day use on Linux, > > Hi Anselm, > > I don't think consensus on which editor should be conflated with > consensus on covering an editor. For example, if we did that, there > would have been a time when LPIC-2 covered no MTAs and, currently, no > HTTP servers. (Did I just open a can of worms?) > > For me, covering nano/pico or other 'obvious to use' editors isn't > worthwhile. However, when someone is stuck with vi, and emergency > situation is not the time to be fussing around as Alessandro > mentioned. > > Not to mention, vi is a tool that a person can grow with...advanced vi > features/ed/ex/(sed but we cover that)/vim. People that avoid vi > because "it's complicated" are short changing their options later on. > > > > While I do think vi should be set to a 2 weight from the current 3, I do > > find knowledge of vi relevant to several Linux professional use cases. > Lack > > Hi Alessandro, > > 'Professional use cases' brings up something I wanted to mention > earlier when someone mentioned LPIC-1 being a (Linux) sysadmin cert. > I know quite a few people that also view it as a Unix cert. And, in > my mind, it's a cert for any professional user of Linux. I spent the > first part of my career as a sw developer (SunOS and Linux, mostly) > and it took many years to accumulate the portions of the LPIC-1 > knowledge body that would have made life so much more fun, productive > and safer to the enduser. > > This point isn't really about the vi discussion, though. I just > wanted to say it. > > > >> (d) exam questions on editors tend to look silly, anyway. > > > > To whom? Some people think in the III millennium exam questions on > > command-line tools designed in the 70s is a waste of time. So? > > Some things are timeless...like roman numerals. It took a few passes > at parsing this comment to realize you meant 3rd millennium (or > IIIrd?), though. Probably better to use the unambiguous term > '0b11rd'. :) > > Regards, > --matt > -- > G. Matthew Rice <m...@starnix.com> gpg id: > 0x17CF9077 > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > lpi-examdev@lpi.org > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > -- -- Alex clementea.clementesi...@uol.com.bralexbm...@gmail.com Analista Linux, Unix, Virtualização e Middleware Instrutor Linux e Open Source ----------------------------- AWS Technical Professional Azure Datacenter in Cloud Platform for Technical CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI SUSE 11 Certified Linux Administrator SUSE 11 Technical Specialist LPIC-1 Certified Linux Administrator LPIC-2 Certified Linux Engineer
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