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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 10 Mar 1997 10:00:24 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5g1b6o$ti$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <33174D6F.41C6@efx7.no-spam.turner.com> <5ftoqp$jde$3@peachy.apana.org.au> <5fudng$lur@raven.eva.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163773 comp.os.linux.networking:71503 comp.os.linux.setup:101942 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6282 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2778 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56545 comp.os.os2.advocacy:273589 In article <5fudng$lur@raven.eva.net>, Brian Murray <brian@anv.net> wrote: >> >>No, the best editor is the one that is Guaranteed to be there on >>any system you are likely to have to work on. >> > > > Ummm... why? Why not just one that you know well and that lives on a >laptop? Or that lives on a machine accessible to you from your laptop for >that matter, or that is accessible from the machines on which you will work? Depends on what you are doing. If you are doing system administration it may very well require editing of several configuration files before the machine will even talk to anything else. >It seems to me that if you're always using what's on any machine on which >you may have to work then you're always starting from scratch. If you're >bringing along your own machine, or something to let you connect to a >machine of yours, then you don't just have your favorite editor available, >you have all sorts of files, bits and pieces that you can use and reuse >without having to write them again from scratch, from memory. On a fast network connection this approach might be reasonable, but it is cumbersome to have to transfer an assortment of files back and forth every time you touch something. Better to transfer the pieces you need (and if you are on the internet you can just pick them up directly from where they live instead of carrying them around) and then use the native editor for changes. Les Mikesell les@mcs.com