On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 08:53:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of what some > > windows using loudmouth happens to think (and no, i'm not referring to > > you here joseph). > > That's just silly. If someone can figure out vi, they really ought to be > able to figure out how to use an editor with on-screen help. We're not > forcing anyone to write a book with it, just use it for a couple of > seconds in an emergency.
but there is something wrong with an editor not exciting normally like it is supposed to do. Hell the first time, i went down to edit my fstab with cat, grep and other such stuff, or was it ed ? do we have ed on the boot floppies ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
