Re: visudo not vi?

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote:

>On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
>> > it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
>>
>> 1. not everyone knows how to use vi
>> 2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny.
>
>We probably should change to nano-tiny, because (a) it's tiny and (b)
>it supports neither syntax (though it isn't modal, so maybe it's
>closer to Emacs), so nobody can complain that the other syntax is
>supported but theirs isn't. :-)

1) nano-tiny is bigger than ae by ~10K
2) nano-tiny has all of the library disadvantatges of ae.  It carries all
of the libraries that ae does.  The hidden advantage of elvis is that it
only carries symbols from libc and libncurses (for reference, true pico
also only carries libc and ncurses...)

>
>Chris
>

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