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[Rich Walker]

Stig Brautaset <gllug at brautaset.org> writes:

> On Jan 07 2003, Tethys wrote:
> > 
> > Rich Walker writes:
> > 
> > >No, "easy CD version", "can rebuild itself from installed copy",
> > >"fits on 1 floppy", and "free forever" are outweighed by the lack of
> > >tab-completion and Emacs.
> > 
> > It's an emergency rescue system. Sure, tab completion would be nice
> > (and I'd personally have included it), but it's far from essential.
> > And Emacs? On a single floppy? I guess you could put microemacs on.
> > Even if you use Emacs (or nedit or jed, etc.), you should at least
> > have a basic working knowledge of vi, because that's often all you
> > have when the machine's having problems.
> 
> I bet Rich was joking.

About half. The lack of an emacs-key-binding editor is ... irritating;
the lack of tab-completion drives me up the wall! I usually just end up
mounting the /usr I'm trying to rescue, and using emacs...

Mind you, tomsrtbt was the first linux I could carry around (Thikpad
486/75, 12Mb...) so I'm still impressed with it

cheers, Rich

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