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Re: editor alternatives?



On 18 Oct 2001, Mikael Hedin wrote:

> Anyway,  I noticed that of the editors I have, nvi has the highest
> priority for the editor alternative.
 ...
>  Should not some more newbie-friendly editors have
> higher priority?  When they grow up and want/can use vi, they set
> EDITOR to vi anyway.

Absolutely.
Just because some people still know how to make marks on clay tablets
with reeds doesn't mean to say that the biro-wielding public should be
ignored.
I genuinely believe that the time has come to make nano the
de facto default editor in debian.

msw (in flame-thrower mood)
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