The lost tape of UNIX V4 was found, I gave it a spin and was amazed how fast you feel familiar using it.
Wake up honey, new UNIX version just dropped
When I have to console into the old Solaris boxes at work, I’m reminded both of how many quality-of-life enhancements we enjoy on modern Linux, and also why I will always default to vi as my editor.
Every time I do not have to use vi as editor I’m glad there’s CUA editors like micro which I don’t need my three year computer science degree for.
which I don’t need my three year computer science degree for.
vi really isn’t complex.
CUA editors
CUA editors work as long as there is grid display and ANSI input. They do not work in a line feed or console-line environment like telnet, console, etc., hence the need for hjkl movement.
Also CUA is an IBM initiative, it wasn’t followed everywhere.
Vi is unintuitive and annoying to me. Others can use whatever they want but I can’t stand people who tell others they’re wrong for not preferring vi.
I use micro in my console, or rather terminal. Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?
CUA was not followed everywhere, but it was followed by CDE and so it was native to Solaris.
Yes, well CDE doesn’t enter into the equation over a minicom console. As I said, cua isn’t super useful in line-feed environments.
I haven’t seen CDE in over 20yrs.
I just boot straight into eMacs.
Emacs is a stranger breed of ppl than vi users still… Kudos.
