Save the shell people

[firecat]

I'm outside the target demographic but charmed enough to play yenta:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/m4w/485967082.html

(The OH knows him and advised him to add the PPS about vi.)

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Pico! Seeble!

(Though I can also claim a certain ability to use EDLIN if need be, which would recover my geek cred except that it doesn't run on a respectable OS.)

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

pico is a perfectly good text editor.

vi is a very fine does everything including washing the windows, walking the dog, doing massive search and replace using regex, and also running the federal government sort of program.

however, usually i just want to edit text, and remembering the key combination so that i can actually *type* in my text editor makes me cranky. cranky! so pico, it is.

[firecat]

And here I was thinking that it was emacs that ran the federal government while vi was just one of those corrupt urban mayors with thousands of dead people on the voter rolls.