Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 12/25/07, Forrest W Christian wrote: >> Vitaliy wrote: >>> Is the learning curve really as steep as some say (weeks/months)? >> No it's not that bad, although it might take that long for your brain to >> switch into vi mode. > > I think it is much better than the line oriented editor > like DOS edlin and the Honeywell DPS8 GCOS editor (forgot > the name) I used to learn Fortan 77. We had punch cards so there was no editor other than ourselves. :-) > VAX/VMS editor (EDT) is not that bad as edlin. But then > I only used edlin for very short time (DOS3.3) since ne/pe > and EDIT came out. The VMS default editor wasn't bad, it would have been nice if I had a chance to learn it before being made the admin of the VMS boxen we had. In the lab where I work I tend to be one who gets stuck with the oddball support for protocols used by the Cisco router. I started with IOS 7.0 and supported things like XNS, PUP, DECNet (and LAT/LAST/LAVT), HP printing and netbeui (ick). I play with more modern protocols like MPLS, BGP and various IP over IP schemes. Oh the command line editor in the Cisco router is emacs like. :-) Edlin is an editor I learned to hate! I've used the Unix ed and ex editor before learning edlin. Ed/ex I could tolerate but edlin I just hated. I also disliked switching between modes in vi but I did appreciate it when I had to dial into a Unix box and the modem line wasn't clean. Those modes saved me more than one when noise struck. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist