From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mparson@bl.org (Michael Parson) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:49:15 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [TUHS] unix "awesome list" In-Reply-To: <20180508172043.GB16384@mcvoy.com> References: <20180508122429.GG999@thunk.org> <95a2a49d689b9a9c844e76ebf8385885@bl.org> <20180508172043.GB16384@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 8 May 2018, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 11:31:37AM -0500, Michael Parson wrote: >> Going beyond 'cat -v considered harmful', things like ifconfig, >> route, and netstat being considered 'deprecated' and replaced with >> the 'ip' tool. Same with syslog, cron, init, and who knows what >> else, being replaced with systemd and journald. This doesn't even >> cover how vim has become way more than just a GNU re-implementation >> of vi. > > I'm not thrilled with the systemd stuff either, I still don't see that > it is solving anything that wasn't solved. But somebody must like it, > it's a big change. I'm not thrilled with it either, but it seems to be how things are going, so, I've been forced to learn how to use it. > vim, on the other hand, oh do I love me some vim. It's pretty > faithful to the original vi but you get split windows, infinite undo, > it remembers stuff from one invocation to the next, it's pretty sweet. I resisted it for a long time, installed nvi on my penguin boxes so I could have something resembling the vi I was raised on, but I've come to appreciate a few of its features. It just took some time to reprogram my fingers for some of the features. I find 'vimdiff' extremely useful, but it's not really 'the unix way'. :) -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ