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Re: visudo not vi?



On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:21:02PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> 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.

Correction.  Looks like they've written this version in C:

    /usr/bin/e3: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
    statically linked, stripped

Oh, well... Still small, either way you look at it. ;-)

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