On Sun, 04 Aug 2002 at 10:10:17AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Is there any reason that nvi could not be moved to /bin and made > eligible for "root default editor" status? The nvi package Depends only > on libc6 and libncurses5, both of which live in /lib. Sure, nvi's binary > is nearly ten times the size of nano-tiny, but if I can still mount my > root partition, I'd rather use nvi than nano. I second that...a vast population of Unix Users and Admins use vi or a vi clone (like nvi). When I started work at an ISP the first thing my boss told me was "learn how to use vi". -- Phil PGP/GPG Key: http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ wget -O - http://www.zionlth.org/~plhofmei/ | gpg --import
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