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Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?



Scripsit Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi>
> to, 2005-12-22 kello 10:20 +0000, Jon Dowland kirjoitti:
>> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:29:24PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
>> > su, 2005-12-18 kello 20:17 +0100, Norbert Tretkowski kirjoitti:

>> > > We already have two editors in the base system, nvi and nano.

>> > Yes, that being the bloat I was referring to.

>> I think there should be at least one non-modal editor in base.

> Behold the awesome non-modality of nano.

Yes; therefore it is not bloat to have nvi and nano both in base; they
satisfy different needs (having a vi because we're unix resp. having a
non-modal editor for the rest of us).

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