From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 14:23:24 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] basic tools / Universal Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20171030141645.6F81C18C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, Ronald Natalie wrote: > I’m a bizarre UNIX relic. I never learned vi. I went from “ed” to the > various emacs variants (starting with Warren Montgomery’s EMACS, then > JOVE and UNIPRESS, and later GNU). I used INed (a commercialization of > the Rand editor) but didn't particularly like that either. My coworkers > for years would be amused when if I found the machine had no EMACS > variant, I’d just use ed. I could be startlingly fast in ed and you do > learn regular expressions well if you have to do a lot of editing that > way. On a few machines where I’m confronted with VI and no ed/emacs, I > just use VI in “ex” mode. A previous boss insisted that all his support staff learn ED, because one day it might be the only editor available on a trashed box (you can't mount /usr etc). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."