LPI exams - Ubuntu Certification

[Erik Christiansen]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:06:09AM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
> The exam also asks questions about vi. I understand the logic in asking
> about the one text editor that any system, including a rescue system, is
> guaranteed  have. But they seem to ask the wrong questions about it...
> For example, it asks how to move the cursor up 4 spaces. I may not
> remember which of hjkl moves the cursor where, but in real life I can
> find out by pressing them. Plus, currently vim understands the arrow
> keys. And what if I write "4k" and the computer expects "kkkk"? Also,
> when it asks how to "save and exit", what if I am used to using :wq and
> the exam expects me two say :x ?  Does it really matter if I know
> that :x can save and exit as long as I am able to save and exit it?
> 
> In some questions the exam seems to be measuring the wrong things.

It's hard to disagree. Though I used vanilla vi heavily 15 years ago,
it's been vim only for the last decade or more. (So it's hard to
remember which bits ancient vi lacks.) That might matter, but for:

$ which vi
vi is /usr/bin/vi

$ /usr/bin/vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Aug 22 2005 17:23:42)

This on default breezy, and you're talking Ubuntu Certification, so the
questions must surely be vim-related, or be erroneous?

Erik

(Who is already certifiable. :-)