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Re: [opensuse] disrtibution support
- From: John Summerfield <summer+suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:00:49 +0800
- Message-id: <200704121000.49676.summer+suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:32, Damon Register wrote:
> Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value
> (although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then
> there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi.
If there is any possibiltiy that you will be called on to maintain any *x
system at all, you can bet a lot of them do not have nedit, joe, pico, jed,
emacs or many of the others.
You _can_ expect to find vi, ed and sed. vi is light-weight and designed to be
used over slow links. ed is pretty similar, but lacks the visual element. sed
is strictly batch-oriented.
_I_ regularly do system maintenance by dialup, and no GUI is especially useful
at the other end of a modem.
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Cheers
John Summerfield
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> Ok, when Xwindows is not running, nedit might not be of any value
> (although I thought I remember there being a curses version) but then
> there is joe which is a lot nicer IMHO than vi.
If there is any possibiltiy that you will be called on to maintain any *x
system at all, you can bet a lot of them do not have nedit, joe, pico, jed,
emacs or many of the others.
You _can_ expect to find vi, ed and sed. vi is light-weight and designed to be
used over slow links. ed is pretty similar, but lacks the visual element. sed
is strictly batch-oriented.
_I_ regularly do system maintenance by dialup, and no GUI is especially useful
at the other end of a modem.
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
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