Re: An 'ae' testimony

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 08:53:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of what some
> > windows using loudmouth happens to think (and no, i'm not referring to
> > you here joseph).
> 
> That's just silly. If someone can figure out vi, they really ought to be
> able to figure out how to use an editor with on-screen help. We're not
> forcing anyone to write a book with it, just use it for a couple of
> seconds in an emergency.

but there is something wrong with an editor not exciting normally like it is
supposed to do.

Hell the first time, i went down to edit my fstab with cat, grep and other such
stuff, or was it ed ? do we have ed on the boot floppies ?

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER