"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes: > The vi and nano debate was had a long time ago. So was the nvi versus > vim-tiny. It was decided that first-time users were not going to be > able to navigate vi, but experienced users would expect it. I don't > know why people argued for vim-tiny over nvi; for a really rudimentary > base system, I think smaller is better.
There was a long argument at the time which mostly amounted to, if I remember correctly, vim having a more active upstream. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj97nih7....@windlord.stanford.edu