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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