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The Monday 2007-04-09 at 16:03 -0500, M Harris wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007 16:31, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > If you're new to Unix/Linux, and you don't actually _need_VI, then use
> > something friendly like MC, or pico, or joe.
Agreed. :-)
> > (I've probably started a flame war here, but if you investigate for
> > yourself, you'll find that I'm right.)
> >
> Well... I'm just incensed here... :-P
>
> ... first off, if you're new to unix, the very first thing you *must*
> learn
> is vi, period, end of story.
But this is not unix, but linux. And not "plain" linux, but openSuSE linux
:-p so we do have joe besides vi right from the start, even from the
rescue CD - so that purists can grumble in their marble towers :-P
It doesn't hurt to know a bit of vi - specially the keystrokes needed to
exit as fast as from a running fire!
:-P
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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