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Do you know how to use "Terminal"?
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Real men use vi...
But Emacs users get to enjoy the base emacs keystrokes in the text area of EVERY COCOA APP!
And Emacs has everything short of a decent text editor built right in!
Nope, they built VI in as well!
Hmmm... M-x viper started around 1994, not sure exactly when it was integrated to the standard distributions. Also look at M-x vimpulse (which adds more vim commands) and its successor EVIL.
If there's a software package called EVIL, I'm totally going to check it out. Thanks for the hot tip!
Almost constantly. Despite the "it just works" mantra, I find there are scores of things that are difficult or impossible to do from the GUI. Out comes my old friend the command prompt.
It's the same way in Windows as well. I find an ever-increasing portion of my day (I'm a Sr. Network Admin) is spent in powershell. I'm gradually migrating to managing our SANs via SSH instead of using the web interface--which itself just plinks commands to sshd anyway. Diagnosing ESX is far easier/faster using the Linux-based Service Console (which the bastards are taking away from me!). And of course, router/switch/firewall configuration is vastly easier via the command line. About the only arena in which the GUI is clearly superior to a shell is in monitoring. Graphs are pretty AND they help you get a handle on statistics quickly.
CLI or die.
It's the same way in Windows as well. I find an ever-increasing portion of my day (I'm a Sr. Network Admin) is spent in powershell. I'm gradually migrating to managing our SANs via SSH instead of using the web interface--which itself just plinks commands to sshd anyway. Diagnosing ESX is far easier/faster using the Linux-based Service Console (which the bastards are taking away from me!). And of course, router/switch/firewall configuration is vastly easier via the command line. About the only arena in which the GUI is clearly superior to a shell is in monitoring. Graphs are pretty AND they help you get a handle on statistics quickly.
CLI or die.
