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RE: question about /bin utils



On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
> Woah my bad..  not /usr/local/bin..  /usr/bin.  And yes I do have ae and
> ed in my /bin.  I'd like to think that they could have given me vi too
> though :)
> 

so here is the deal.  No one could win the editor wars so Debian decided to
choose a neutral party (think Switzerland).  ae is not liked by anyone, so
everyone could agree on it (-:  It looks like nano (the pico clone) is set to
take ae's place.  For much the same reason.



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