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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>>If you invoce it as /usr/bin/e3pi it behaves like nano, who in turns
behaves
>>and are based on pico.

But e3vi makes me feel more at home ;-)

> It's damn small in size..., also please take a look at
>>"embutils" and "ugrep" from contribs for size.
>
> afaik e3 is not yet in the rescue mode, is it?

No, but at 10k it isn't exactly going to increase the rescue image much,
especially since it is statically linked (so it won't pull in any other
libraries).

But, the issue isn't only which editor, but how users find it.

If I think back to the first time I had linux up and running, without X
(ahh, back with RH5.2 ...), the commands I tried in order were something
like:

help (not very useful to get the bash help compared to the help from
dos/Windows)
edit
x
dir
win
xwin
Xwin
setup

So, how about aliasing edit to the editor of choice in rescue mode?

(BTW, freebsd's default motd is a good idea ... something that could be
implemented and save a lot of newbies a lot of time)

Regards,
Buchan

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