Free Linux Foundation Online Class

Bill Kindle

Learning to use what is available isn't zealotry towards vi. We all want to :q vi. It's zealotry to reliable support perhaps.

FTFY

scottalanmiller

Lol. What's funny is in the enterprise space I literally see nothing but vi. From developers to tech managers to the admins and engineers. I never thought that it would be so ubiquitous.

PSX_Defector

That's a function of it being a part of POSIX compliance. It's included in Cygwin, BSD, Linux, etc. etc. With our enterprise, we have multiple text editors installed by default from our implementation team.

Joy

@scottalanmiller Thanks for posting this.

scottalanmiller

@PSX_Defector said:

That's a function of it being a part of POSIX compliance. It's included in Cygwin, BSD, Linux, etc. etc. With our enterprise, we have multiple text editors installed by default from our implementation team.

Sure. Most shops will. It's when you switch shops or work on customer gear or something that it matters. For me the big moment was when production went down at IBM Endicott and I was the only person in the entire facility who could work on the vi-only Solaris systems.

thanksajdotcom

vi is definitely a pain but it's actually what I'm used to. I haven't done much real text editing via CLI in so long that since I've only used vi lately and nano once I'm just more familiar with vi. I would say it's beneficial to know vi and at least one or two others so you can be flexible. But vi is a crucial one to know.

scottalanmiller

After all these years, I like vi now. 20 years of vi this year.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller It's not great but honestly I do very little with it.

vi file
I
make changes
Esc
:wq!

Done! I'm not doing anything crazy. Editing config files in basic ways. For me it works.

scottalanmiller

Find a vi cheat sheet. That's all that you really need. It has a lot of power.

art_of_shred

got me one of those

scottalanmiller

@art_of_shred said:

got me one of those

The biggest things are knowing how to exit and save. vi used to be far worse. Now we have cursor key support and delete. So not insane like it used to be.

RoguePacket

Erg, looks like the class starts " 3rd Quarter 2014"—

https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introduction-1621
Also, https://www.edx.org/school/linuxfoundationx
Cool they have an "audit" option for those unable to fully commit, but want exposure to the material

scottalanmiller

@RoguePacket said:

Erg, looks like the class starts " 3rd Quarter 2014"—

Yeah, just an early announcement at this point.