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J. Roeleveld posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:08:56 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> The vi and emacs camps agreeing on something? Impossible! |
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> I think both camps do the following: |
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> emerge <preferred editor> |
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> emerge -C nano as one of the first steps. |
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> The first thing I do on a new install as soon as a portage tree is |
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> available is run the above. |
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FWIW I keep both my preferred editor (MC, FWIW) and nano installed. |
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That way I have a backup if my preferred fails to start (as it does from |
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time to time if I'm rebuilding deps), and I don't end up having to use a |
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pager and sed in place of a proper interactive editor, as I did at one |
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point many years ago on a different distro. (It probably had vim-minimal |
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or some such, but I was still young on Linux at that point and didn't |
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know what to look for. Fortunately I had a dead-tree copy of Linux in a |
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Nutshell around, with an appendix on sed that I could refer to...) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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