Allison wrote:
  Bill Sudbrink wrote:
 Allison wrote:
  First choice when all else fails, vi. 
Can't resist... really, when _ALL_ else fails, ex. 
 Did you mean ED??? That loathsome excuse for a tool!
 I'd rather hurt myself before using that. Scratch that.
 Every time I've used it, I did hurt myself. 
Uh, no, I meant ex, the line level editor that runs under vi.
When you can't even get vi to run right (termcaps messed up
or, in one case I experienced, most control characters being
filtered/screwed up between me and the system I was trying to
edit a text file on) give ex a try.