Re: What editors are in base?
Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> Greg Vence writes:
>
> > > ae is on board.
> > >
> > > > I am surprised nobody mentioned vi -- what, no purists out there
> > > > anymore? :-)
> > >
> > > We already faught the fight before - and lost. ae won. :-(
> > > There's a set of macros which can turn ae in a vi-mode. This
> > > might be included in further releases.
> > >
> > I've never seen a base-line Unix box w/o vi that was what prompted the
> > initial mail.
>
> Me too. Apart from the fact that i cannot understand the decision
> I don't want to perform this fight a second time. This was the decision
> and now we should al live with it until we find a better solution
> (which could mean finding a very small vi or reducing elvis to only
> support basic functions that makes it very small; or the above mentioned
> vi-macros)
>
> Apart from the fact that I need a vi, many new users won't ever use
> vi if they find it. vi is a tool for freaks, hackers and gurus
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>(therefore
> it's a very good editor for us...). Beginners are very happy with ae
> because they can see which commands they can type. It is really an
> easy editor. Therefore it should be included in the base set. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
>
> --
> / Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * joey@debian.org /
> / http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages.de/~joey/
Well I am not sure I fit into any of those categories (well, maybe
the first one).
When I was in school, my UNIX teacher had one immutable law;
"Thou shalt learn vi". His argument was that no matter what
flavor of unix you happen to come across in your career as a
unix administrator, there will always be vi on the system. I
have to admit there have been times I was very grateful he made
me learn it. Having worked with at least 9 flavors of unix,
it was the most valuable lesson I learned in school.
--
Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California
email: keng@wco.com URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng
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