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

[James Laver]

On 10 May 2009, at 09:11, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> And sometimes there's a reason why none of them are available, like  
> the
> one Alain mentioned or something simpler and harser, like them all  
> being
> somewhere in /usr and that partition having been unmounted.

That's why the FHS says your mount command should be in /bin.

> Most Linuxes do not install anything that provides /bin/vi by  
> default, so at
> this point ed and sed are what you are stuck with.

Personal experience of Linuxes says they always come with either vi or  
nano. Even debian.

I may choose to install emacs instead, but the point is you always  
have *something*.

Which Linuxes are you thinking of?

--James
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