On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution
disks...
1. not everyone knows how to use vi
2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny.
We
John Galt wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
1. not everyone knows how to use vi
2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:57:07AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
1) nano-tiny is relatively easy to use.
2) nano-tiny has fewer bugs.
Using a non-vi-compatable editor on boot disks is a hanging offense
that debian will pay for once sysadmins try to install Debian but
realize they have better
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:42:10AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3
supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends
whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to start it.
.. but is not suitable as it's not portable.
Hamish
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3
supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends
whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to start it.
Hamish .. but is not suitable as it's not portable.
Isn't
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:03:39AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3
supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends
whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish I thought somebody said they made a mistake and there is no C
Hamish version -- just the i386 assembler.
No the package both contains an asm version for i386 machines and a
version in C for other architectures.
Someone said the C
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:47:06PM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish I thought somebody said they made a mistake and there is no C
Hamish version -- just the i386 assembler.
No the package both contains an asm version for i386
Aaron Lehmann wrote:
Using a non-vi-compatable editor on boot disks is a hanging offense
that debian will pay for once sysadmins try to install Debian but
realize they have better things to do than learn a whimpy editor. It
would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:31:43PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- Here is what I got:
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- File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P
- ^F
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- what the heck is this editor?
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# User privilege specification
rootALL=(ALL) ALL
what the heck is this editor? how to let visudo use vi instead?
thanks,
jack
visudo use vi instead?
man visudo
Check your environment, particularly $EDITOR and $VISUAL.
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- Here is what I got:
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- File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P
- ^F
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- what the heck is this editor?
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- ae. It's supposed to be an easy editor. I find it's a pain in the ass.
agreed, wtf it's still in the base distribution?
it should be
Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
1. not everyone knows how to use vi
2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny.
Wichert.
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:12:34PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
agreed, wtf it's still in the base distribution?
it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
it has. check debian-boot archives.
comments?
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:12:34PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
- Here is what I got:
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- File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P
Shouldn't that be up up down down...
;)
Drew
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Just do:
vim /etc/sudoers
You don't need visudo
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Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just do:
vim /etc/sudoers
You don't need visudo
Read the man page - using visudo is a good idea, assuming you've set
$EDITOR properly.
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
point taken.
Quoting Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- Here is what I got:
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- File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P
- ^F
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- what the heck is this editor?
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- ae. It's supposed to be an easy editor. I find it's a pain in the ass.
- Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
- it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution
disks...
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- 1. not everyone knows how to use vi
- 2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny.
requires more libraries...
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Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia;
On Mar 13, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
it should be probably replaced by elvis-tiny , even on distribution disks...
1. not everyone knows how to use vi
2. ae is *small*. lots smaller then elvis-tiny.
We probably should change to nano-tiny, because (a)
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:31:43PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
that emacs is just to big for this purpose. So came ae, which let's you
have a little of both worlds (at a big cost in both worlds unfortunatly,
but that's usually what a compromise will do).
You mean the worst of both worlds,
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