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

[Andy Smith]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:40:08AM +0000, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> 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.

vim can edit files over sftp too. :)

Andy
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