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On Freitag 02 Oktober 2009, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 03:52:24 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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> > > > Nano is not non-existent by default. |
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> > > |
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> > > It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent default |
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> > > seems quite broken to me. |
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> > That's true of every editor, so you have to choose the one that is most |
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> > likely to be there, the one that is installed for the stage tarballs and |
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> > is there unless the user has taken specific steps to remove it. |
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> Or you could try to find a suitable default intelligently instead of |
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> blindly compiling in a default that may or may not exist. Worse still is |
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> blindly doing so without telling the user. |
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> > > > A more sensible approach would be for the ebuild to check which |
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> > > > ebuild satisfies the virtual/editor dependency and set that. If the |
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> > > > OP really cared about this "problem" he'd investigate providing such |
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> > > > solutions instead of ranting about how Gentoo does not use his editor |
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> > > > of choice by default. |
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> > > |
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> > > The problem there would be if multiple editors provide virtual/editor |
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> > > (such as on my system, which has both vim and ed installed). The ebuild |
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> > > trying to automagically select what should be the default editor is a |
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> > > bad idea, if not just horrible. |
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> > You can't have it both ways. You want the program to default to an editor |
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> > that is guaranteed to be there, at least at installation time, yet the |
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> > only one that satisfies that is virtual/editor. It's only a default, it |
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> > only has to be available the first time you run the program, whether |
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> > it's your favourite editor or not. If you only want to use default |
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> > configurations without making any changes to suit yourself, I suggest you |
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> > may be better served by a distro that is a little browner. |
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> And if you, say, have two editors installed that satisfy virtual/editor? |
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then the more sensible one should be used by default. |
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Lets see: |
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nano, built in help, easy to use, small, good enough for most edits. |
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vim, whatthefuckisthatcrap? how do I quit this monstrum? what happened now? |
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MODES? |
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nano wins, hands down. Because every idiot can use it long enough to edit the |
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files needed to make vim default. |
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