Hi, Since I have not seem posting from Miquel... For this discussion of "Which editor should be installed as default on` the each Debian system?", I think more technical discussion should be done. This is old topic. We can always install nano, nvi or vim-* later as you wish by "sudo aptitude install <your-editor>" :-) (Disclaimer: I use vim exclusively.) > From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> > Hi Joey, vim-tiny is available in debian/unstable. There are still some > minor bugs, but the package is fine. The installed-size of it and of > vim-common are as I anticipated (776 + 232 on i386); the only additional > dependencies are libc6 and libncurses5. Well is this small? By the way, we should also check nano too. Let me review some status of small editors. (Listed by the size) Package: elvis-tiny Priority: optional Installed-Size: 148 Maintainer: Miquel van Smoornburg <miquels@cistron.nl> Version: 1.4-20 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1) Size: 46090 Package: nano-tiny Priority: optional Installed-Size: 220 Source: nano Version: 1.3.9-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libslang2 (>= 2.0.1-1) Size: 138512 Package: nvi Priority: important Installed-Size: 632 Version: 1.79-22 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1) Size: 288166 Package: vim-tiny Priority: optional Installed-Size: 776 Version: 1:6.4-006+1 Depends: vim-common (= 1:6.4-006+1), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) Size: 377374 Package: vim-common Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 228 Version: 1:6.4-006+1 Recommends: vim | vim-tiny Size: 80504 --> This means vim-tiny, it took Installed-Size: 1004 and Size: 457878 Package: nano Priority: important Installed-Size: 1380 Version: 1.3.9-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5) Size: 461694 So aside from vim-tiny, what we have in sid priority important, nvi and nano, are not smallest editors for the job. From technical point, we should chose elvis-tiny and nano-tiny. Both of these editor have commands in /bin which is always with us. (What happens if you have NFS mounted /usr ?) In terms of updating editors which is installed as the default rescue system, we should chose small ones: nano-tiny and elvis-tiny. (elvis-tiny is another vi-clone.). Sarge installer installs nano and nvi. I thought it was sort of overlooked bug of installer. nano and nvi are in /usr/bin. Cheers, Osamu
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