On 07-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: > Woah my bad.. not /usr/local/bin.. /usr/bin. And yes I do have ae and > ed in my /bin. I'd like to think that they could have given me vi too > though :) >
so here is the deal. No one could win the editor wars so Debian decided to choose a neutral party (think Switzerland). ae is not liked by anyone, so everyone could agree on it (-: It looks like nano (the pico clone) is set to take ae's place. For much the same reason.