Re: Debian-Policy Manual
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On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Jun 17, Scott Ellis wrote
> > I believe that the plan is to have them managed by update-alternatives,
> > and therefore be symlinks. Less will probably have a higher priority than
> > more, although I don't know who gets to win the war over which editor is
> > best, although I suspect a vi varient on the grounds that that is what
^^^^^^^
> > happens on most unices.
>
> <sigh> Here we go again.
>
> Newbies should *not* be dumped into vi by default. It's just too
> user-hostile.
I'm not advocating any particular editor here. I personally use joe for
brief editing jobs and emacs for the big stuff, but I can understand the
expectations of someone familiar with unix typing vipw or such.
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| Scott K. Ellis | Argue for your limitations and |
| storm@gate.net | sure enough, they're yours. |
| | -- Illusions |
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