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

[Ryan Wheaton]

ahhh...  this thread brings back memories of when i was a young buck, 
new to Linux, and kept insisting on using pico to edit any files...that 
is, until the senior sysadmin where I worked taught me vi.  well, half 
taught me, half forced me to learn it...and I'm eternally grateful for 
that lesson because it's been invaluable to this day -- granted I don't 
do much coding outside of some webpages and wouldn't dare set foot 
inside of emacs...it's scary in there.

-rtw

jonc wrote:
> Ala Slashdot:
> 
> Top 10 Items in the Linux Admin Toolkit
> 
> Joe Barr writes "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has listed his favorite top ten
> tools for Linux system administration in a story on Linux.com, one of
> Slashdot's sister sites." From the site: " Since I spend a lot of my
> time working with text files, either when I'm writing and editing or
> when I'm mucking with configuration files and shell scripts, I've become
> very attached to my editor of choice -- Vim. Over the years, I've tried
> a lot of other editors, but none of them has been sufficient to coax me
> away from Vim
> 
> ===
> 
> Just thought you emacs users should know!
> 
> :-)
>