Sign you use vi too often
May 30, 2008
bandman@newcastle[501]:~$ alias
alias :q!='exit'
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
bandman@newcastle[502]:~$
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Hi! I'm Matt Simmons, author of the Standalone Sysadmin blog. I've been a small infrastructure administrator since aound 2001, nearly always on my own, hence the "Standalone Sysadmin" title. This year, I started working at Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science, so I'm getting a taste of a larger environment,but it's still small in the grand scheme of things, but I'll be passing along this new experience as I go through it! I started this blog in May of 2008 and have thoroughly enjoyed every interaction I've had because of it. Thank you for visiting!-
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May 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
When you suggested I try using Slackware instead of FreeBSD, I had to alias ee to pico (I still can't stand using Vi, I don't care how powerful it is).
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Nice,
Try using Windows Notepad after extensive use of 'vi'.
I don't know how many times I typed ':wq!', pressed enter and closed the app. When the dialogue popped up to save the document, I'm like "I already did, wtf? Oh! yeah."
-sh