On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 09:23:05PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Olaf Meeuwissen said on Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:40:37 +0900
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Steve Litt writes:
> >
> >> What could possibly be easier than vim /var/log/messages, or
> >> vi /var/log/messages, or emacs /var/log/messages, or
> >> nano /var/log/messages? And notice with the old way, you have a
> >> choice, rather than having to look at log output with the vendor's
> >> proprietary tool.
> >
> >Maybe I'm peculiar but I always find it absolutely, totally
> >jaw-dropping when people use text *editors* to *look* at file content.
> > Makes my toes curl up and blood curdle.
>
> You're right. Use less or some other *viewer*.

For things like log output, which must be kept unchanged, a read-only
viewer would suffice. Or a read-only editor. Editors sometimes have
texual search mechanisms that are better than viewers. And if you use
one editor a *lot*, its commands are muscle memory.

For things tat you primarily want to read, but rarely fix a typo or
such, you can open a text editor in read-only mode, protecting you from
inadvertent edits.

-- hendrik

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