Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> 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.

<grin> that's just fun.  Of course, Alphas all come with real video cards
these days... plug in a real monitor and keyboard, set TERM, and you'll
find that you can still use vi in most cases :)  I just couldn't ever be
bothered.  ed is a real editor :P

I'm reminded of a userfriendly strip I have printed out on my desk to
bemuse the twits we have doing our MIS (it's been outsourced to EDS...
<sigh>.  umm...  <http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990508>

Cheers

Richard

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