Quoting Elvis Dieguez from Feb 27
> I suppose you are correct about my poor example (I wanted to be sarcastic
> because I am tired of this argument that shows up every other month).
>
> And I understand things would have been better in your situation had you had a
> statically compiled VI present. But I don't expect your scenerio to occur if
> you are installing Gentoo for the first time! No one is stopping you from
> emerging vi and that is my point -- the maintainers of Gentoo have decided to
> use nano as the standard editor but you are free to choose a different one.
> Why continue complaining and hounding the developers to change it when by now
> it is obvious they do not want to?
I think I understand why the gentoo folks decided to use nano - I
mean it's obvious: anyone can use it bacause of the help line;
_no-one_ not familiar with it can use vi.
(BTW, IIRC Debian and FreeBSD use something called ee during
install which is also nice and easy).
The argument of the original poster was that you can expect vi to be
present in any unix environment. And although I am not an old unix
guy, from what I have learned about unix he does have a point.
And, during the install process, once you are at the point at which
you can emerge individual packages, most of the configfile editing
you have to do will already be done. Prior to that, you might want to
edit at least fstab, resolv.conf, make.conf, grub.conf, profile, and
probably some ebuilds.
Peter
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