On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > 1. not everyone knows how to use vi > 2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny. Andreas Tille wrote: > Not everyone (including me) knows how to use ae - it is really > strange sometimes. I actually refuse to use ae. It has caused me no small amount of problems when trying to set up LRP boxes, mostly with EOF markers and <cr><lf> issues. It has rendered some of my attempts at firewalls useless. In fact, it was these frustrations that prompted me to write off LRP as a neat idea, but not useful for my preferences. I'd much rather install an old 50MB+ IDE and put a normal base Debian install on the system... but I stray off the subject at hand. For small editors on the x86 platform, look into e3. It puts ae to shame and it performs much better, IMHO. It is written in assembly, which makes it unportable to other architectures, and thus why it's probably not been nominated for use in base. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: e3 Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 38 Maintainer: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.4-1 Filename: pool/main/e/e3/e3_1.4-1_i386.deb Size: 18570 MD5sum: 1005b76289b32095c403f74ed18bb61f Description: A very small editor This package contains an editor you can call via the following links: - e3em: Emacs-like key bindings - e3vi: Vi-like key bindings - e3pi: Pico-like key bindings - e3ne: Nedit-like key bindings - e3ws: Wordstar-like key bindings . e3 has the following advantages over other editors: - it has no library dependencies - one very small binary that gives you 4 editors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pretty nice... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11579 Jan 23 05:16 /usr/bin/e3 -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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