Re: visudo not vi?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:31:43PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting "Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <uhlar@fantomas.sk>:
>
> > -> > Here is what I got:
> > -> >
> > -> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > -> >
> > -> > File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P
> > -> > ^F
> > ->
> > -> > what the heck is this editor?
> > ->
> > -> ae. It's supposed to be an easy editor. I find it's a pain in the ass.
> >
> > agreed, wtf it's still in the base distribution?
> > it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
> >
> > comments?
>
> If memory serves me correctly, there where a big flamewar a couple of
> yars ago, about including emacs on the bootdisks etc. It was ultimatly
> desided and realized that even the most die-hard emacs fanatic (Tm :)
> that emacs is just to big for this purpose. So came ae, which let's you
> have a little of both worlds (at a big cost in both worlds unfortunatly,
> but that's usually what a compromise will do).
how about midnight commander instead of the wordstar-esque ae?
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