Giridhari wrote:
Hare Krsna.
From: Giridhari
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:37 AM
To: dera...@cvs.openbsd.org ; dera...@openbsd.org
Subject: Fw: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots
ATTENTION
Last night I saved a rat from certain death at the hands of a cat whose
ovaries had been cut out. This is the cutting edge of bhakti in the interests
of OpenBSD. You have been notified.
Note: The below message has been slightly adjusted to that which was sent to
dera...@theos.org.
From: Giridhari
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:28 AM
To: dera...@theos.com
Subject: pico and/or nano in the releases and snapshots
Hare Krsna Mr. DeRaadt.
I am trying to write a new security implementation for OpenBSD, but find vi to
be clumsy and hampering.
I was very comfortable with pico, and nano. I am running a new system with
multiprocessor kernel, and currently have no support for the ZTE MF626 modem I
connect via cellular network with. I have tried installing the package of pico
but it failed, so I installed it's dependencies, but pico still would not
install because it had partially installed, would not pkg_delete (not even
when forced), and I could not find a way to clean this up.
I would really appreciate if pico or nano, which are simple and elegant,
perhaps not with the frills vi uses apparently seem to appreciate, but simple
and natural nonetheless, we part of the distribution.
I agree, vi is terribly complicated and confusing to use.
That is way I have always found ed to be a wonderful editor
It is in the base and ALWAYS works even under the most terrifying and
frightening conditions.
Long Live ED!
I fly with those. PLEASE
INCLUDE PICO OR NANO OR BOTH IN A NEW SNAPSHOT, and from now-on, and please
overlook the apparent justifications for vi-only exclusivity, and help please.
FOR BHAKTA GIRIDHARI. Krsna is your friend. PLEASE!!! I know its is a
non-standard request, but honestly, vi is so clumsy, and I have LOTS of coding
to do, including writing support for umodem for the MF626, and I would like to
write it as a learning exercise in assembly. The new security mechanism is
brute force resilient, and it is for particularly nasty weather. Pull a
Torvaldsesque dictatorship because-I-said-so if you have to.
Hare Bol.
--
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- Robert Heinlein
