Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal)

[John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>]

Matthias Kretschmer wrote:
> vim is very powerfull if you know it, if you don't know it
> at all, you could be get into trouble exiting the editor :-)

We had an attempted hacker break-in at our site last year. The thing
that foiled the attempt was vi -- one of the system files had been
edited, but the edit has been killed, and the recovery log showed
the file to be full of "quit -- exit -- bye -- GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
stuff near the end... :-)

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