[Sussex] A beginner's guide to GNU/Linux

[Nic James Ferrier]

Andy Smith <andy at lug.org.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:27:17PM +0000, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
>> I use vi in similar circumstances... a quick edit of the shadow file
>> on a remote system.
>> 
>> But if I want to do an involved edit, cut out a rectangle and move it
>> about, sophistcated search and replace, something even more exotic
>
> But vim does all those things also.

But vim isn't installed everywhere. Sometimes it's just nvi.

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