From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,629e11b80bdec45d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 07:41:22 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:06:35 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3AFBF1EB.F9B3CAC4@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3AF9903A.B47431C8@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcje.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 989589994 2350 193.62.183.48 (11 May 2001 14:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 May 2001 14:06:34 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7394 Date: 2001-05-11T14:06:34+00:00 List-Id: 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... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------