[rescue] off topic - red hat linux book

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Tue Oct 20 19:29:19 CDT 2009


Steve Sandau wrote:
> One of my favorite RedHat questions had to do with what color "vim" 
> highlighted something with. Who cares? I don't do that color crap; I do 
> what works on as many operating systems as possible, and that means just 
> plain "vi" 'cause it is always there. I don't see that knowing how vim 
> highlights something is important in administering RedHat. *sigh*

Exactly.  If you're relying on syntax coloring to be able to do system
administration tasks, you're sunk without a trace already.


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