On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 07:40:40PM -0400, Peter Silva wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 7:27 PM Guus Sliepen wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:02:47PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > > > I hadn't realised how fat nano is (not the only consideration of > > > course, but zile is very good on this measure and surprisingly > > > functionfull). > > > > You are comparing apples with oranges! The nano package comes with a lot > > of help files and translations. You need to compare things to nano-tiny: > > > > > Instaled sizes: > > > zile: 365K > > > busybox: 786K > > > vim-tiny: 1547K > > > nvi: 1605K > > > busybox-static: 2045K > > > nano: 2469K > > > > nano-tiny: 234K > > > so maybe we just add nano-tiny as an option to vim-tiny. > because we understand vim is not newbie friendly, but for all the old > hands, nano is not friendly to us. > 234K is a small price to pay.
Not yet seen in this thread, is the package vis $ apt show vis Package: vis Version: 0.5+ts-3 Priority: optional Section: editors Maintainer: Paride Legovini <p...@ninthfloor.org> Installed-Size: 1,002 kB Provides: editor Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.51-8), libc6 (>= 2.15), liblua5.3-0, libncursesw6 (>= 6), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libtermkey1 (>= 0.14), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libtre5 Recommends: lua-lpeg Homepage: https://github.com/martanne/vis Tag: implemented-in::c, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses Download-Size: 249 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main armhf Packages Description: Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
