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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
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Date: 8 Jul 88 04:07:37 GMT
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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