Re: vi in /bin

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From: Brad Tilley

Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 6:23 pm

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, "Randal L. Schwartz"
<merlyn@stonehenge.com> wrote:
quoted text> >>>>> "Brad" == Brad Tilley <brad@16systems.com> writes:
> 
> Brad> I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot
> more
> Brad> comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping
> someone
> Brad> use ed remotely, who has never used ed, when I myself don't use it
> Brad> regularly is always an adventure.
> 
> Solution: learn "ed" a bit more.
> 
> It's really *not* that hard. :)

Good advice. Guess I'm looking for the easy way out. I'll make myself
edit in ed every Friday or something.

Brad

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vi in /bin, Brad Tilley, (Thu Dec 17, 5:47 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Randal L. Schwartz, (Thu Dec 17, 6:12 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Brad Tilley, (Thu Dec 17, 6:23 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Raymond Lillard, (Thu Dec 17, 8:26 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, David Gwynne, (Thu Dec 17, 10:07 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Chris Bennett, (Thu Dec 17, 11:09 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Woodchuck, (Fri Dec 18, 12:35 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Pieter Verberne, (Fri Dec 18, 12:36 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Philip Guenther, (Fri Dec 18, 12:47 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Han Boetes, (Fri Dec 18, 1:07 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Igor Sobrado, (Fri Dec 18, 2:28 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Paul M, (Fri Dec 18, 3:03 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Gregory Edigarov, (Fri Dec 18, 3:15 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Eugene Yunak, (Fri Dec 18, 7:33 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Dale Rahn, (Fri Dec 18, 8:40 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Matthew Szudzik, (Fri Dec 18, 8:46 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Nick Bender, (Fri Dec 18, 9:16 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Internet Retard, (Fri Dec 18, 10:10 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Chris Bennett, (Fri Dec 18, 10:30 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Nick Bender, (Fri Dec 18, 10:55 am)

Re: vi in /bin, ropers, (Fri Dec 18, 11:22 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Chris Bennett, (Fri Dec 18, 11:35 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Matthew Szudzik, (Fri Dec 18, 11:45 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Anders Langworthy, (Fri Dec 18, 12:29 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Antoine Jacoutot, (Fri Dec 18, 3:57 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Jason McIntyre, (Fri Dec 18, 4:16 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Randal L. Schwartz, (Fri Dec 18, 4:27 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Ingo Schwarze, (Fri Dec 18, 5:33 pm)

Re: vi in /bin, Paul M, (Sat Dec 19, 12:30 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Otto Moerbeek, (Sat Dec 19, 1:30 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Jason McIntyre, (Sat Dec 19, 2:01 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Henning Brauer, (Sat Dec 19, 5:13 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Matthew Szudzik, (Sat Dec 19, 10:34 am)

Re: vi in /bin, Ingo Schwarze, (Sat Dec 19, 10:51 am)

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Re: OpenBSD sed vs GNU sed, Matthew Szudzik, (Mon Dec 21, 7:32 pm)

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