[TriLUG] Re: vi(m) #1 of the top ten linux tools admins should know/have

[David McDowell]

> ...You couldn't pay me to write code in vi, for example. :-)

Everyone has a price, everyone!!  :)  :p  But I agree, any normal day,
I would never full time code in vi, though I do edit my website code
every now and again with vi through ssh sessions, but when at home,
Gedit, Quanta or Nvu.

David McD


On 11/2/05, Lance Brown <lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:
> jonc wrote:
> > Just thought you emacs users should know!
>
> I'm a *huge* emacs bigot.  Can't hardly exist without it, but as a
> sysadmin, I'd be nuts to fire up emacs as root every time I need to edit
> a config file in /etc.  vi is your friend for root activities. :-)
>
> Everything has a proper time and place.  You couldn't pay me to write
> code in vi, for example. :-)
>
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