[gentoo-dev] No 'real' editor in /bin ?

[Alexander Gretencord]

Well I haven't noticed till now, but there is no real editor in /bin to use 
when you have to recover the system. Of course you can use ed or sed to edit 
whatever file you have to, but if that's what you want then why have nano on 
the install cd :) The problem of course only arises when /usr can't be 
mounted (being an nfs mount or whatever).

So wouldn't it be wise to either install nano in /bin if that's gentoo's 
default editor *sigh* or put vi into /bin as you normally know that on any 
unix the one editor that's always there is vi. (no I'm not neccessarily 
talking vim tho it can be made quite small too :))


Alex

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