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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 7:36 pm, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 19:09, Douglas Russell wrote: |
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> > I agree with this entirely. I just don't understand what you would need |
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> > vi(m) to change a few variables for. nano does a really good job and is |
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> > really easy to use for inexperienced users where as vi is a bit daunting. |
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Because, for professional UNIX hacks like myself, vi is an editor that is |
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universally present on just about all UNIX-like operating systems. Not |
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everyone installing Gentoo is an inexperienced user. And I'll leave the |
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debate at that. |
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> Please, not again (or do it on the users list). vi is on the install cd |
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> because of people not being "able" to work with nano. We managed to keep it |
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> out of system which I believe is good. Now stop the discussion, vi has been |
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> discussed too much on this list allready, and nothing should change to the |
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> current situation concerning vim. |
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> Paul |
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Sorry, Paul, I don't agree with you about leaving vim alone on the basic |
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install CD, and I'm not happy about you telling people to stop the discussion |
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either. On the basic install CD, vim takes up megabytes of diskspace - space |
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that could and should be saved. We're not talking about trying to save 200K, |
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we're talking a substantial saving. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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