Geert Stappers wrote on 17/03/2020: > 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
Vis maintainer here, thanks for mentioning it. I really like this little editor, but I don't think it's a good fit for what we are looking for here as it has a small userbase and bus factor. Good news is that upstream is active again and a new release should be cut soon. Paride
