[OS X TeX] general question concerning font installation

Oliver Pooley oliver.pooley at philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Tue Sep 11 05:50:54 EDT 2007


On 11 Sep 2007, at 08:17, Martin Costabel wrote:

> For some administrative tasks (example: editing the sudoers file),  
> vi is necessary because of its precision. It does exactly what it  
> is told, not getting smart on you and transforming tabs into  
> spaces, adding spaces at the end or wrapping lines like emacs has a  
> habit of doing.
>
> Most of the time you can get away with just 5 easy to remember vi  
> commands

Can I just thank everyone for the hints and pointers about vi (and  
nano/pico).  It was exactly what I needed to be told.

Oliver

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