On Tue, May 10, 2005, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: Moving to Linux": > NEdit is also nice. The slides covering basic vi use have been removed from > recent "Welcome to Linuxes" due to the fact that it seems knowing vi has > become less and less important. Kfir, unless X-windows is not working, there > is no need to instruct people how to use vi. And even in console, it may be > more beneficial to introduce people to joe or GNU nano.
Just today I saw on the newspaper that kids today don't know who Herzl was, or what he did. Sure, you can get by today without knowing anything about Herzl, but he played an important part in the history of Israel, so we should remember him. Similarly, vi may no longer be in "vogue", but it was very important in the history of Unix, so people should be taught about it ;) For even more "ancient" history, ed should be taught as well. Otherwise, how will the newbie understand the name of the command "grep", which comes from the ed idom "g/<re>/p"? ;) -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, May 10 2005, 1 Iyyar 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The meek shall inherit the Earth, for http://nadav.harel.org.il |they are too timid to refuse it. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
