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Re: editor alternatives



On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 11:27:35AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Wondering, as I prefer to have something simple like nano as my editor,
> also since nano is on boot-floppies, etc., I don't like having vi as
> default editor, it also confuses nearly everyone I know <g> (And causes
> me more time helping them out when they don't quit vi right, or simply
> are completely lost when they end up with it.)
> 
> So I update-alternatives --config editor, and set nano to my default
> editor. I just wonder if we don't want nano to have a higher priority
> than nvi? How do we decide about this kind of thing?

Is someone paying people to cause unrest on the Debian lists by bringing up
this topic every 2 weeks?  

/me casts an evil eye toward RHS..

--Adam
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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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