J. Roeleveld posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:08:56 +0200 as excerpted: >> The vi and emacs camps agreeing on something? Impossible! > > I think both camps do the following: > emerge <preferred editor> > emerge -C nano as one of the first steps. > > The first thing I do on a new install as soon as a portage tree is > available is run the above.
FWIW I keep both my preferred editor (MC, FWIW) and nano installed. That way I have a backup if my preferred fails to start (as it does from time to time if I'm rebuilding deps), and I don't end up having to use a pager and sed in place of a proper interactive editor, as I did at one point many years ago on a different distro. (It probably had vim-minimal or some such, but I was still young on Linux at that point and didn't know what to look for. Fortunately I had a dead-tree copy of Linux in a Nutshell around, with an appendix on sed that I could refer to...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
