Re: Full-screen editor in /bin
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 19:54:50 -0500
"Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 06:06:16AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > > It seems that my lightweight editor of choice, ae (Anthony's
> > > Editor), is no longer packaged for testing/unstable. Are there
> > > any other full-screen editors, preferably actively maintained and
> > > with emacs-like key bindings, that install in /bin?
> >
> > ln -s /usr/bin/emacs /bin/emacs ?
>
> I believe the OP's reasoning behind the /bin installation location
> was to have the editor available with TSHTF and the system is really
> messed. Thus, there's probably a need for it not to be a symlink or
> dynamically linked executable.
Right. What editor do I use when only / is mountable and I need to edit
that stray /etc file. (Of course if / itself isn't mountable then I
would need a rescue disk to go with the editor.)
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