[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:03:34PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
[...]
> ... I hear they might have fixed that one at some point in the last decade
> or so...

pico isn't Free enough for Debian, so it's actually a symlink to nano. nano
can be invoked with "nano -w", or alternatively put "set nowrap" in your
.nanorc to fix this broken data-corrupting behaviour. That it's not the
default is unforgivable though, and shows its origins as a horrid clone of a
toy editor embedded in a sub-par MUA.

As a bonus, you can configure it to mangle your files in different ways dependi
ng on how wide your
screen is. So you can create text that still doesn't word-wrap correctly on a t
ypical eighty-column
terminal.

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