In praise of the FP-45 :-)

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 11:33, Paul King wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2006 at 0:03, Colin McGregor wrote:
> > better gun and then threw the FP-45 away... With vi,
> > use it to get something better and then ...
> >
> > Colin McGregor
>
> I would only agree if you are using pure vi. 

> I guess I direct this question mostly at Colin: Were you implying that
> emacs would be something better? If not, what else? nedit? pico?

Some nostalgy? vi is usefull. When I started to use my early Linux skills for 
bread and butter I asked naively a more experienced co-worker: why should I 
care about editing /etc files on Linux? Am I not root?

Well, there is yet God above root... And bad luck.

Thats where vi comes handy.

It happens that I often work with huge text files (hundreeds of MB or more). 
Is there any other text editor one can use with these large files? Perhaps 
there is. Certainly vi is one. Nedit can handle up to a few tens of MB only  
(depending on the amount of memory, swap, etc). pico will crash with a few 
MB. vi will work with any size.

zb.

> Paul King
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