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Re: Bug#155376: what is default editor in /bin



On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 05:49:09PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> As has been mentioned in the various 'editor in /bin' threads
> a couple of times before, we already have elvis-tiny for that
> task. And it is tiny:
> 
> % ll /bin/elvis-tiny 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        67436 Jan 23  2002 /bin/elvis-tiny*
> 
> It comes with a /bin/vi wrapper that executes /usr/bin/vi if
> it is present, and /bin/elvis-tiny otherwise.
> 
> The wrapper is small as well (it is a C program, not a script):
> 
> % ll /bin/vi
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3660 Jan 23  2002 /bin/vi*
It is sweat. :)

(I mistakingly thought symlink.  It was wrong.)

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