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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:03:04PM +0100, James wrote:
> On 10 May 2009, at 11:09, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >
> > I'm assuming that /usr can't be mounted because of a problem that
> > requires some work to fix.  If you need to be editing files to fix it,
> > you are now stuck because the editors you are familiar with are all on
> > that partition.
> 
> So even on debian netinstall which ships as little as possible, I  
> have /bin/nano. I'd rather use that than ed.

And I dislike nano (and pico) enough to prefer ed, an allergy which
extends to me ignoring or uninstalling it (but then I always have
something providing a real /bin/vi), so I have to confess to being in
error here.  I'm dismayed to realise that major distributions are
prepared to have nano as the only visual editor in /bin by default.


-- 
Bruce
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