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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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