Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor?

Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor? by donw on Friday December 19, 2008 @07:12PM (#404026)

I'll put in another vote for Vim, but I'm biased, as I'm a systems guy by trade. Losing my skills with vim would be death, because it's often the only working editor on a truly hosed machine.

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Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor? by Niten on Saturday December 20, 2008 @05:19AM (#404462)

Nope, that would be ed :) I had to use ed to rescue an OpenBSD VPN endpoint a year or so ago.

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Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor? by donw on Saturday December 20, 2008 @02:27PM (#404726)

Point. I've had to use ed as well, but generally speaking, in all but the most dire of circumstances, vi will run -- I think on Solaris that vi is still statically linked. Even so, ed works very simmilarly to vi (including movement, search, save, and so on), so it's a lot easier to fix something with ed if you're a vi user. :)

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Re:Ask HN: IDE versus Text Editor? by hs on Saturday December 20, 2008 @03:55PM (#404809)

seconded, there's no vi in openbsd install image

i had to use ed during installation to change the fstab (from sd0a to wd0a) of a 2.5" hdd mounted on usb

important step coz o/w rebooting from sd0a 2.5" ide put me to single user w/ read-only fs (too late for ed)

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