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From: Helmut Hullen on 27 Nov 2009 11:51 Hallo, Theodore, Du meintest am 27.11.09: > When faced with the vi interface that follows 'crontab -e', I > reach for the O'Reilly "Unix in a Nutshell" book, in which I've > put a tab at the chapter on vi. What about VISUAL=pico crontab -e or EDITOR=pico crontab -e Viele Gruesse Helmut "Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 27 Nov 2009 13:06 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:29:58 -0600, Aaron W Hsu wrote: > ... in fact, single-user mode is probably more useful than a recovery > disk for this. Well, not if he's forgotten the root password. Slackware's single-user mode requires the root password. Point for Slackware ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Sylvain Robitaille on 27 Nov 2009 13:11 On 27 Nov 2009 16:53:12 GMT, Joost Kremers wrote: > hey, i guess emacs even wins over vim! > ... > > 12 vs. 11! > > (don't try this with the X-enabled version of emacs, though... ;-) To be fair, you would want to compare Xemacs with gvim ... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvain Robitaille syl(a)encs.concordia.ca Systems analyst / AITS Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Montreal, Quebec, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Lew Pitcher on 27 Nov 2009 13:11 Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide(a)local> trolled: > Lew Pitcher <lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca> writes: > >>Mike Jones <Not(a)arizona.bay> trolled: >> >>> My point in a nutshell. I'm not a sysadmin. I'm an enthusiastic dabbler. > >>Exactly. You are a hobbyist, as is everyone who posts to this ng >>who is below the age of 35. Those older than 35 probably learned >>unix on a real system and slackware when there were few linux >>alternatives. > > Humph. Says you. That's right. And tinkering with a commandline interface is like tinkering with a Model T. Slackware is a hobbyist distribution and the only people that ought to be doing any kind of real work with it are old farts who have been using it for years. One that is new to unix/linux would have to be an imbecile to try and learn from slackware. LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html
From: Lew Pitcher on 27 Nov 2009 13:13
Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide(a)local> trolled: > Lew Pitcher <lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca> writes: > >>That is where you should be using ex, not ed. ed edits basic >>streams editor while ex is a basic text editor. Try typing "vi" >>from ex and ed to see the difference. > > No, I mean, quite intentionally, ed. Ex is a line oriented mode of the > vi "suite" if you want to call it that, but I meant ed. Ex is mostly > functionally equivalent at that point, but sometimes, you don't have > access to Vi/Ex. :-) Any situation where you would have access to ed and not ex would be contrived. LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html |