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

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On 10 May 2009, Harry Rickards verbalised:
> I agree that people should learn to use either ed or echo, but isn't
> there a vi clone in BusyBox, which IMHO everyone should have installed.

More: Everyone should have it installed *statically linked*. Yes, it's
huge when you do that unless you happen to have uClibc available, but
it's really useful if you knacker your dynamic linker to have *one*
does-most-things tool available that doesn't rely on *anything* outside
the kernel working.

For everything else (other than ldconfig and sln, of course), stick with
dynamic linking. (I've had *intense* arguments with BSD and SysV folk
over this, but I remain convinced that there's no excuse for having
statically linked versions of damn nearly everything just because they
are fractically faster under artificial workloads.)
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