On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:10:54PM -0700, Paul Harper wrote:
> If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by 
> people who are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a poor 
> choice for the text editor on the Live CD.
> 
> Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on 
> #opensolaris) is the way to go. 

I'm an emacs user, and I hate vim but i think it is _mandatory_ to have 
vim as in every unix system. If you want to add nano (Debian's 
tradition) or joe (Slackware's tradition) it will be a good idea. But 
don't purge vim.

> I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps pico. 
> Or is there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as root?

Pico is privative software. And a user that uses gedit to manage the 
system is dangerous like a monkey playing with knifes. OSs must be easy 
to use. But the user must make the effort of learning about the system 
too.

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Francisco J. Tsao Santín
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