[cec@gryphon.gsfc.nasa.gov: Re: [vim] ftp access from withinvim]

[George Toft]

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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