Re: [SAGE] Unix training materials recommendations?

[Yves Dorfsman <yves@zioup.com>]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, John Sechrest wrote:

> Editing with emacs/vi and regular expressions is one of the things
> that some of the secretaries just went gah gah over. Others choked
> on it though.

How true !!

I used to teach UNIX classes for training companies, and vi was always in
the curriculum of what I was supposed to teach. Typically I would teach it
at the end of a day and tell people that they didn't need to know that but
were welcome to stay, explaining that they should ask their sysadmin to
install pico on their machine if they needed to edit files and weren't
willing to learn vi.

And sure enough one day I got "Are you Yves ? Aren't you the sysadmin at
company X ? Will you install pico for me ? Can I go now...."


Yves.
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