On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:44:23PM +0200, Martial Bornet wrote: > Unless a distribution offers a choice for the default editor, it will be > impossible to satisfy everyone. > I don't despise nano nor emacs, I simply don't use them, and I'm sure I'll > never will. So nano or emacs would be very bad choices for me. > The best choice is to let the user choose it's own default editor.
And nano is an acceptable stopgap is the user is forced to editi before he has chosen. -- hendrik > > > > > > 2015-07-16 10:32 GMT+02:00 Oz Tiram <oz.ti...@gmail.com>: > > > I am an avid VIM user, and I despise VI. > > > > If devuan is about choice you can always apt-get install vim-minimal after > > the default install. > > > > Nano is a better choice for anyone, because it is not as large as VIM. > > Emacs is also not intuitive. > > > > > > I see no real obvious reason to default to vi instead of nano except > > that it was the default editor in some unix platform (and still is in some > > other). > > > > Nano, is not VI, but it's still in the spirit. A small unix tool that does > > one thing > > good, and excel at it. It is a simple and intuitive editor. > > > > VIM is a wonderful IDE, scripting language, terminal multiplexer and to a > > certain > > degree a religion too ([I worship it too][1]). This are all wonderful > > traits, but not > > necessarily a trait for a default installation. > > > > These are my two cents. > > > > Oz > > > > [1] A collection of my writings about VIM > > http://oz123.github.io/tags/vim/ > > > > -- > > > > > > --- > > > > Imagine there's no countries > > it isn't hard to do > > Nothing to kill or die for > > And no religion too > > Imagine all the people > > Living life in peace > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
