The vi editor causes brain damage [2007]

[anon1385]

http://lwn.net/Articles/246345/

[hk__2]

Not anymore:

    $ mkdir bar
    $ cd bar
    $ for i in {1..40000};do touch $i;done # create 40k files
    $ rm *
    $ # no warning

But it has nothing to do with `rm` itself, it was due to the fact that the glob expansion was done by Bash.

[sharth → hk__2]

Apparently a kernel fix was the cure: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/571954 and the patches are at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/67

[niuzeta]

I clicked the link with excitement that this was some sort of intellectual discourse on implication on brain of stationary posture while computing(i.e., not moving hands away from keyboard for a very long time).

I am disappointed.

[H3g3m0n]

Wouldn't rm as part of GNU binutils, be more likely written in Emacs?

[pyalot2]

This behavior is encountered whenever * is expanded by the shell and has nothing to do specifically with vi or rm.

I also fail to see how posting a troll comment from a mailing list from a person who fundamentally doesn't understand the *nix CLI environment belongs here.

[thesmok]

Just find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; I had to do this when I had to delete millions of cache files and rm couldn't do that.

[lutusp]

There are good arguments against vi, its variations and descendants. This isn't one of them.

[chris_wot → lutusp]

I kinda think that a solid argument wasn't the point.

[lutusp → chris_wot]

Yep, I noticed it was more of a rant than an essay.

[gmagogsfm]

i tried to google this dude and found what could be his website, but when I click on it, my company network blocks me and says it has nudity