At 04:15 AM 7/5/2003 PDT, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >Or rather, I've never learned vi, and it still doesn't >have enough cross-platform portability to tempt me. I'm not really in >the "emacs is superior in all ways" camp, but it's what I want as MY >choice of basic editor, even if it "just" has the keybindings and >"modless" editing philosophy.
Thank you for providing my morning dose of irony. Complaining that emacs isn't available on a distribution -- despite its superior portability -- brought a smile to my face. It might have even amused Bill Joy, who was putting vi in the Berkeley distribution way back in 1977. The vi clone in tomsrtbt is perfectly adequate for poking around and modifying some scripts or configurations. In less time than this thread has taken to read you could learn enough vi for that. As Tom keeps reminding folks, if you're using the disk for more than quick jobs, you'd be better off using a rescue CD of a major distribution or some other route. If you're absolutely married to using emacs, you might as well compile the real thing for the old Slackware libraries and create a custom CD. Sounds like a lot of work to me, but then I'm a lazy cuss who broke down and spent a few minutes learning vi basics. Cheers, Tyler
