On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > > I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really... > > it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default. If you want > > it, you know how to get it. And let's be frank: emacs is not something > > that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find > > himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.) > > > > I agree. My problem is not that emacs is missing in development stack. > My problem is when there is something wrong with the computer and I > have to boot in the rescue mode, I can't rescue anything because emacs > is not there. I wrote on a piece of paper how I would save and exit in > vi, or exit without saving in vi, but that paper is gone now. I wish > vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it. I'd recommend you use nano instead (which is, I believe, installed by default for just this purpose). It has the main keyboard shortcuts permanently displayed on screen, so you can't lose 'em. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
