-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2016-04-02 at 16:35 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/02/2016 01:41 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
'm sure you must have missed something in between, but the essence of it all is - GUIs vary, vi doesn't. If one find's it easier to deal with varying GUIs instead of just editing one line of text using one's favourite editor, well, then I give up.
You're making a few assumptions there.
Yes, people like Thee and Mee and most denizens of this list are sufficiently experienced to handle VI.
Those that don't are experienced enough to use any other editor - say, gedit, write, joe, mcedit... maybe notepad, perhaps not.
Most people who buy these devices at BestBuy (or the national equivalent elsewhere) are not; they are probably MS-Windows users and they are quite used to setting things up via GUI screen.
Then you are confused: Per is not talking about using VI on those devices you buy, like a printer, but that he has a dedicated Linux machine of some sort which is running a dhcp daemon which he configures with vi. A unique file for all the machines in his network. For the rest of us that are using a router provided by the ISP, we do the same via the web page configuration of the ISP router. A GUI configuration. Those doing that only have to configure IPs on a single place, instead of having to find out how to, then do it, configure each device separately, instead of leaving them on auto. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcA+gUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VRIgCdHZLTOfTrKzq9NPVSQCzCZZCr pOEAn1vqM4Cry4h/9dIGqvDaX22KFczw =+Vat -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org