-- Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly: > What I do care about is the future Gentoo user being able to > consentrate on his or her install rather than learning a fairly > complicated editor with far more capability than he needs at that > point.
How does adding vi to the install CD force anyone to anything? I don't think anyone here is advocating "replace nano with vi" or "have the install docs reference vi instead of nano". It's just that many people are familiar with vi, and when you're doing an install and editing a bunch of text files, it's nice to have something you're familiar with. I use XEmacs by choice, but I'm comfortable enough with vi that that's what I fall back to when I need to do some simple editing on the command line; the lack of it is what I found most irritating about the install process. Sure I can use nano, but it's _annoying_. I can't figure out how to undo, or cut-and-paste, or any of the stuff I've trained myself to do in another editor. And I'm not going to learn, because the only time I use nano is when I'm install Gentoo. As was pointed out already, adding a lightweight version of vi would not increase the size of the install image by much at all. And so many, many people would appreciate it, I'm sure. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
