[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Wed Mar 9 16:23:10 UTC 2005


> (Cue tales of gurus reviving systems using only the shell intrinsics)

A shell!?  We used to dream about having a shell to fix a borked system!

>
> In fact, forget that. Real editing is knowing which holes to tape
> over to save punching a whole new card.

Seriously, if you haven't devised and then toggled in a binary patch to a
kernel using the front panel switches (as an alternative to flying home
from Milan to solve the problem) then you haven't lived.

John

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