Submitted 26-Jul-00 by Xavier Bertou:
> Don't put strange default behaviour for things such as vi that no
> newbie will ever use.
That's an unfair generalization. One of the first progams I ever
launched was vi as a FreeBSD newbie. A few weeks later, I "graduated"
to Redhat 5.2 and later to Mandrake 6.0. While I may not have been a
"typical" newbie, vi was one of the few commands I knew about without
having to find a manual. (And FreeBSD's default sh prompt is pretty
scary for a newbie, let me tell you :)
vi is mentioned in any halfway decent linux book, and newbies will
generally know about it and want to try it. They may move on to other
editors, such as Emacs or jed, but they know that vi will be on 90% of
the systems out there because it can run even when only the root
partition is mounted.
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