Quoting Elvis Dieguez from Feb 27
> Oh God don't start the vi-emacs-nano-elvis-jed war again. If you want to use
> VI just do:
>
> emerge vi
>
> and continue on your merry way. Who cares that historically *nix has VI in its
> base install? Cars used to have a crank out front to start them up but no one
> complained when the first car was produced that didn't have one.
This argument is not valid.
The crank was there because you had no other way of starting the
engine. Technology improved, and made the crank obsolete.
With vi and pico/nano it is more like the other way around. Vi
definitely is SUPERIOR to nano technology-wise. It may not be
useability-wise, but the request to have vi in a basic unix-like
environment is a valid one.
May I just mention a scenario I had last week: due to a power
surge(?), the harddisk containing /usr died on my
firewall/masquerading machine (debian stable).
It was of course still bootable (kind of), and I would have loved to
edit /etc/fstab to remove the line which mounted /usr, but the only
editor available in /bin was ed (!!!!).
I ended up editing the file using cat and echo.
>From that expierience, I would even expand the parent request to a
statically compiled version of vi, available in /bin.
nut that are just my
(roughly) 2 cents.
Peter
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