[ams6110]

If emacs is installed. It often isn't. vi almost always is.

I know enough vi to open a file, move up, down, left, and right, search, delete and insert text. And I often run afoul of my emacs muscle memory just doing that. But you really need to know the vi basics if you admin unix machines.

[teddyh]

I’ve learnt enough ed to use that instead of vi. If that isn’t installed, I’ve had to resort to nano, and, in rare cases, sed --in-place. But I never need to know vi.

Of course I realize that this is mostly me being silly, but it’s also rather educational.