[SunRescue] Pico Forever!!!

[BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak]

> <snip vi vs. emacs vs. pico redux>
> 
> Funny, I thought this was the SunRescue list, not editor-advocacy...

It is not about editor-advocacy, but it is about common sense.....

Yes, but, if your file systems are crumbling around you on a dinosaur
Suntoy, freshly rescued from the ``skip'', a bit of editor forethough,
ahead of time, can keep one's hair on one's head, and maybe keep the
machine purring....  My point in the wordjousting, was that there
ought to be some bit of basics as to how one approaches pulling the
machine up by its bootstraps.  Pico probably won't be there.
Emacs probably won't be there.  Even vi may or may not be there,
depending upon the state of the machine, with a specific example
of ``all you got is root''.  Ed will always be there.  In the case
where you are teaching folks about UNIX, they have got to master
some basics if you let them loose with root privs.  If they don't,
oops!  Security usually demands root privs.  Thus, the basics are
good sense.... ed first, then vi, then whatever [pico, emacs, teco,
rand, ee, whatever].  If the security folks don't know the basics....
oops!  A GUI background, e.g. windows, won't help much at the
basic level.  The basics have got to be learned.  There is no
easy way.  That is just good common sense.

Bob