Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!jpliler@wsmr04.arpa From: jpliler@wsmr04.arpa (John Pliler ASNC-TWS-SM-S 678-6257) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment Message-ID: <16426@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 8 Jul 88 04:07:37 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 15 tab@mhuxu.uucp (Tracey Baker) wrote: > system administration, knowledge of vi, ex, or ed is a *must*. When you've > got a system that's sick and will barely boot single-user, guess what you > use to muck around & fix things... It is very unlikely to have large editors like EMACS in your root partition. In many situations it may not even be possible to mount the other structures. A good SA should have knowledge of a standard UN*X editor such as ed to fix problems that may arise. However, I think a good working knowledge of EMACS is a must for any SA. I personally think that a good exposure to EMACS at the University level is important. EMACS has been ported to many different architectures of machines (not necessarily running UNIX). John Pliler