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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Alain wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > I don't know where the default location is, but for me BusyBox is
> > installed in /bin/busybox.
> 
> Hmmm: just checked the busybox source ... their vi has the escape
> sequences for a vt102 nailed in - so that should work for your typical
> Linux console.

Even where utilities are in /bin or /sbin, developers/packagers can let
dependencies to files in /usr creep in.  Not just in Linux, either;
FreeBSD has a set of binaries in /rescue to be used in recovery
situations, but feature creep means that some of these will not now work
if /usr is not mounted.

-- 
Bruce
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