Bug#3146: 1.1 installation: ae doesn't work

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl> said:

> [...] let's stick with standard tools.  I know not everyone
> likes vi, but it is standard (you expect it if you have some previous
> unix experience) and doesn't have the problems mentioned above.  nvi
> has the :viusage command - so it's not that bad even for beginners.

The reason that ae appeared in the distribution is that a
need was seen for a _very_ small and _very_ easy to use editor
to squeeze onto the installation disks.  The closest alternative
(which is a traditional unix editor -- perhaps _the_ traditional
unix editor) was /bin/ed.

Post-install, I believe that the unix editors available on the
root filesystem for disaster recovery in a situation where the
/usr partition is neither mounted nor mountable are /bin/ae and
/bin/ed.