On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:04:43 -0700 jce <[email protected]> wrote:
> > But as far as the vi vs. nano as *default* editor thing, I think nano > would generate a lot less "how do I get out of this thing?" traffic > for devuan support. > Gentlemen, please excuse me if this seems blunt - but - I think the odds of anyone complaining about vi are realistically extremely low. While I respect a healthy discussion, I'd just like to say I feel it is entirely a moot point. Devuan is basically the same style and audience as Debian, which means 90% of the people using it already know their way about in UNIX. The probability is very low that a newcomer is going to use Devuan at all. Even if a newcomer does use Devian, their expectation is going to want to be using a X11 text editor to edit config files - if necessary in root mode. If we want to make things friendly, accommodating that desire is probably the best option. Aside from that, new and intermediate users are probably going to look up instructions, and follow whatever they say; which we can't possibly anticipate, unless someone intends to write a Devuan Manual. There is no real consistency of instruction on the Web, and they are going to do whatever the web says. By far, the widest instructed text tool is vi, and it is the only one guaranteed to be on every POSIX. Advanced users are going to use whatever they want. As far as I know, Debian already installs nano by default, alongside vi. I suggest that we just do the same and let the matter rest. Thanks for reading and have a great day! T.J. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
