I checked out his page. Personally, I think vi is a throwback from
the 1970's, but damn is it powerful. vi is not so much a tool, but a
way of thinking. We had a six hour outage when the /opt filesystem
filled up and the GUI interface to the appserver was being used to
reconfigure it. With a full filesystem, every file the GUI change
was nulled out. If the genius was using the command line, and had
made a backup copy of the files he was changing and then did an ls -l
to confirm the backup worked, he would have realized there was a
problem. But no!!! He had to use the GUI, and I had to search the
whole /opt system for zero length files that were modified that day
and then find a backup copy for them. What a pain. That was what
cinched it for me: I HATE GUI TOOLS.
George
"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 05. Jan, 2001 schwäzte Nathan Saper so:
>
> > I think that der.hans was looking for something like this a few days ago...
>
> Most cool. This *is* what I'm looking for. Didn't work right when I tried
> it as I was leaving work Fri. I'll see if I can figure out what was
> hosed. I'm definitely interested in seeing vim 6.0 come out :).
>
> Here's the URL again, for those who lost it:
>
> http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#vimlinks_scripts
>
> most cool,
>
> der.hans
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