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The Sun gear was really cool to work on. I think occasionally I would like to buy an old one just to have around. My mentor at the time hated emacs. She said
by smackeyacky 5y ago
The Sun gear was really cool to work on. I think occasionally I would like to buy an old one just to have around.
My mentor at the time hated emacs. She said everybody had to learn vi because on a new machine it might be the only thing installed. The flamewars over it seem quaint now.
- kleiba 5y agoI learned enough vi to get by the few times I actually had to use it for that reason (nothing else installed). Which comes down to cursor movement, changing the mode, deleting lines and chars, and :wq! But in all these years I hardly ever encountered a situation where I had to edit some files on a machine that only had vi installed. Perhaps I would have learned it by now if that had been the case more often.