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[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:57 PM -0500 Jeff Vian 
<jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:

> You can use that.  However, you should be aware that vi (and its
> companions) are available on ALL *nix variants and AFAIK no other editor
> has that distinction.

True. I was just wondering if there was some feature in emacs for editing 
password files and doing the needed locking. I know there are plenty of 
other special-purpose modes for doing things like DNS zone file editing and 
version control management.

> Everyone is free to use what they want, but all *should* be familiar
> enough with vi to muddle through in those conditions where no other
> editor is available. (Boot from rescue CD or to single user mode are two
> examples.)

Fortunately I've never found myself in that situation. Either another 
machine is around that lets me look at an online vi reference, or the 
rescue media has emacs or a dumbed-down clone with the same basic command 
set. Now that CD's are the rescue media of choice, there's plenty of space 
for a "big" editor.