RE: [cobalt-users] NEWBIE: how to edit a system file (httpd.conf and srm.conf) on a RAQ3 system?

["MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/15/02 at 8:23 AM Chris Demain wrote:

|[snip]
|While some may argue that one is better, or one is more powerful, etc, be a
|little more forward thinking.
|pico is a good editor, but has some drawbacks:  1) not open source  2) only
|there because of pine, 3) not a standard UNIX editor.  Of all the editors
|available, the only one guaranteed to be on any UNIX or UNIX-like machine
|is vi.  Hard as it may seem to learn, it's the one that's ubiquitous.
|
|</uw_software_rant>
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I bounce around a few different systems, and I tend to agree with your comment about vi.  I maintain a basic set of skills in the usage of vi because it *is* everywhere.  That allows me to be able to edit a file no matter what version of unix I happen to be sitting in front of at the moment.

On the other hand, if I spend a lot of time on a particular system, I tend to download and install nano as my editor of preference (and I disable line-wrapping as the default in nano).  So long as I maintain a basic skill set in vi, I see no need to continue to flog myself in vi when there are alternatives available that are more suitable to my preferences.