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[jim kraai]

let me make this clear:
- i know a lot about vi
- but i _really_ don't know jack about vi
- i still ask other people that same question often

(and i have the same deal with ms excel)

give me a good programmer's text editor, a good spreadsheet, a good
relational database, and a big native clipboard and it seems there is
_nothing_ that can't be done with a big pile of data



On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Crouse <crouse at usalug.net> wrote:

> Or "WTH did you type into vi to get it to do THAT?!"  ---- lol, that could
> be a yearlong topic all on it's own.  ;)
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 5:17 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That makes me think of this:
> >
> > What assumptions have we forgotten?
> >
> > Most of us have learned habits, and some of us--myself included--have
> > forgotten why we still do some of the things we do the way we do them.
> >
> > Practicing the materials on a willing victim or two who've been told to
> ask
> > "why" a lot is about the quickest, most effective way of flushing those
> out
> > before we're doing a presentation.
> >
> > I get asked why I:
> > - ls -alrt so often when troubleshooting a system I'm not familiar with
> > -  ps aufwx, then repeat, piping through grep
> >
> > Or "WTH did you type into vi to get it to do THAT?!"
> >
> > What's interesting is that a lot of those details get lost, relegated to
> > muscle memory, and aren't available to the conscious brain any longer to
> > use to teach new people without some forethought or stumbling during the
> > presentation.
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