8 May
2018
8 May
'18
7:49 p.m.
On Tue, 8 May 2018, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 11:31:37AM -0500, Michael
Parson wrote:
I'm not thrilled with it either, but it seems to be how things are
going, so, I've been forced to learn how to use it.
Going beyond 'cat -v considered
harmful', things like ifconfig,
route, and netstat being considered 'deprecated' and replaced with
the 'ip' tool. Same with syslog, cron, init, and who knows what
else, being replaced with systemd and journald. This doesn't even
cover how vim has become way more than just a GNU re-implementation
of vi.
I'm not thrilled with the systemd stuff either, I still don't see that
it is solving anything that wasn't solved. But somebody must like it,
it's a big change. vim, on the other hand, oh do I love me some vim.
It's pretty
faithful to the original vi but you get split windows, infinite undo,
it remembers stuff from one invocation to the next, it's pretty sweet.
I resisted it for a long time, installed nvi on my penguin boxes so I
could have something resembling the vi I was raised on, but I've come to
appreciate a few of its features. It just took some time to reprogram
my fingers for some of the features. I find 'vimdiff' extremely useful,
but it's not really 'the unix way'. :)
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ