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Re: Priority dependence



"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> The vi and nano debate was had a long time ago.  So was the nvi versus
> vim-tiny.  It was decided that first-time users were not going to be
> able to navigate vi, but experienced users would expect it.  I don't
> know why people argued for vim-tiny over nvi; for a really rudimentary
> base system, I think smaller is better.

There was a long argument at the time which mostly amounted to, if I
remember correctly, vim having a more active upstream.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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