On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:45:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "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.
FWIW, if I knew then all the issues that I've had to deal with from that change (primarily very confused users, but also hassling with diversions under a versioned directory and having to carry a non-upstreamable patch), I probably would've argued against the change among my fellow Vim maintainers. I think the vim-tiny package has ended up being more work than it's worth. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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