Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin | Unix - InfoWorld

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 14 22:28:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:46:35PM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> On 14 February 2011 16:26, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/nine-traits-the-veteran-unix-admin-276
> 
> While there's a fair amount of truth to the article, I found it read
> more like "nine-reasons-why-im-cool."  Come on - vim is the one true
> vi?  Yes, you have to know vi, but that next conclusion does not
> follow.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE vim.  But vim only fails to look
> bloated because it's being compared to emacs.  Vim is a 20MB package
> these days!  Not exactly ideal for small systems - and not generally a
> default, either.  I could continue quibbling, but I'll leave it at
> that.

vim certainly is pretty big once you add all the syntax highlighting
and documentation.  Of course you can turn off many features and end up
with a much smaller vim too that is still very useful.

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