On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:07, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > > Personally, I'm comfortable with standard vi editor, and once you are > past its basic usage, you'd get root's tasks done much quicker in it > than in any other editor (the "dot" command rules ;-) Early in my career I suffered editor shock, there was a different editor on each of the systems being used, a total of about 6 or 7 system types. We finally found versions of micro emacs that would run on all of the systems which alleviated the editor shock. I carried versions of micro emacs to my next few jobs which worked very well. However, in one job I ran into the problem where the user had extensively remapped the key functions where not even the standard emacs editing functions were the same. Shortly after than I learned vi which runs on every unix system I have come across, and there are even versions that run under windows. Since then I can jump on any system out there and use an editor with no problem. IMHO getting proficient at using vi is almost required for any admin out there. Programmers are different, they generally work in their own environment where they don't have to jump to to many systems. Specialized editors, particularly emacs, can improve efficiencies once the learning curve of the editor has been completed. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx I am two with nature. -- Woody Allen
