On Freitag 02 Oktober 2009, forgottenwizard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:29:08AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 03:52:24 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > > Nano is not non-existent by default. > > > > > > It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent default > > > seems quite broken to me. > > > > That's true of every editor, so you have to choose the one that is most > > likely to be there, the one that is installed for the stage tarballs and > > is there unless the user has taken specific steps to remove it. > > Or you could try to find a suitable default intelligently instead of > blindly compiling in a default that may or may not exist. Worse still is > blindly doing so without telling the user. > > > > > A more sensible approach would be for the ebuild to check which > > > > ebuild satisfies the virtual/editor dependency and set that. If the > > > > OP really cared about this "problem" he'd investigate providing such > > > > solutions instead of ranting about how Gentoo does not use his editor > > > > of choice by default. > > > > > > The problem there would be if multiple editors provide virtual/editor > > > (such as on my system, which has both vim and ed installed). The ebuild > > > trying to automagically select what should be the default editor is a > > > bad idea, if not just horrible. > > > > You can't have it both ways. You want the program to default to an editor > > that is guaranteed to be there, at least at installation time, yet the > > only one that satisfies that is virtual/editor. It's only a default, it > > only has to be available the first time you run the program, whether > > it's your favourite editor or not. If you only want to use default > > configurations without making any changes to suit yourself, I suggest you > > may be better served by a distro that is a little browner. > > And if you, say, have two editors installed that satisfy virtual/editor? >
then the more sensible one should be used by default. Lets see: nano, built in help, easy to use, small, good enough for most edits. vim, whatthefuckisthatcrap? how do I quit this monstrum? what happened now? MODES? nano wins, hands down. Because every idiot can use it long enough to edit the files needed to make vim default.
