On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote: > > Vi is a standard. Everyone who considers themselves a 'systems > administrator' should learn how to use vi. This is because even on very > old systems, you will find vi on the base system.
When it comes to a situation, where we would have to decide between an ae like editor and vi, I would vote for ae all the time for the following reason: * A system administrator should be able to recover his system with an ae editor in the same way as with vi. If just don't believe that he can figure out how vi works, buit not how ae works. * A newbie will never be able to use vi right from the beginning. Maybe he doesn't even know how to EXIT vi. So: Vi is for less people useful than ae, although it may be more powerful. I'm only talking about rescue disks and base system here. Marcus PS: If you say that a sysadmin expects "vi" to be there, link vi to ae on a rescue disk. He *will* have an editor, this should be sufficient. PPS: This is not part of an editor war, but logic calculation. -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
