Re: I tested the latest boot disks
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:56:45PM +0100, A Mennucc1 wrote:
> hi
>
> preface: I am a debian developer; I was needing an extra X box
> (=small PC running X for connecting to another host),
> and I had an old pentium with a 200Mb hard disk spare
>
...
> when I chose 'edit the sources list'...
> (I wanted to add my personal small debian mirror)
> I found myself in 'vi' . THIS IS EVIL. why cant I use 'nano'?
> So here is a nice suggestion: first time the user needs to edit something,
> the menu configuration should ask
> 'what do you want to use as a simple editor for text files?
> vi (for long time hackers)?
> nano(for normal people)?'
> and then remember the answer (maybe setting a dpkg-alternative)
Evil, I agree. The priority for nvi is set to 110, while the priority
for nano is 40. I wrote a bug on this and the nvi maintainer agreed
its priority was too high; he's resetting it to 21 IIRC, which will
leave nano as top in a virgin system.
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