Hi,
I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people seem to
be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that that there is an
easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available, even if you are in
single-user mode ?
That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed and
/rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least there can
be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of people could
possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem again, I suspect, might
be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need the terminal database to be kept
under / directly, which goes against freebsd's obsession with a
micro-minimalistic base.
One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that
provides only for the most commonly used terminals to be placed under /, and
single-user mode set up to use this database.
Hi,
I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people
seem to be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that
that there is an easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available,
even if you are in single-user mode ?
That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed
and /rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least
there can be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of
people could possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem
again, I suspect, might be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need
the terminal database to be kept under / directly, which goes against
freebsd's concept of a micro-minimalistic base.
One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that
provides only for the most commonly used terminals placed under / and
single-user mode set up to use this database.
--
Regards
Manish Jain
invalid.poin...@gmail.com
+91-96500-10329
Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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