Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> That's sort of the point :)
> 
> The whole vi -v- Emacs thing is daft, it's simply horses for courses, if
> you want power and can remember dozens of archaic character sequences go
> for vi, if you want user friendliness go for Emacs [joe, jed...]
> 
> Course, there's always gedit, kedit, xcoral too - The choice for a
> Notepad Generation ;)
> 

If you thought vi was bad, wait 'till you have to edit disklabels by hand in 
single user mode with 'ed'. :-)

Fortuantly unless you use DEC Alpha's, you probably won't bump into this.

There was a thread on comp.unix.admin about vi vs. emacs and the role of a 
sysadmin. Large editors like emacs depend on lots of extra libs that may be 
mounted on a partition you can't get to if the system fails. vi apparently 
does benefit here with some systems having statically linked versions. Emacs 
is big as it stands. I'd rather not even think about statically linking that 
beast.

fine; joe, emacs, and all this other friendlier editors are all well and 
good, but many unix boxen just have vi, ed, and ex. It's easier to learn vi 
and stick with it ... at least you can *start* admin'ing any box under the 
sun that way :)

In the end, choose what you're happy with, and at least know the *basics* of 
vi if nothing else. One day, the health of your system may depend on it :)

Chris...vi hacker :)
:wq


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