On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 02:25 +0200, Francisco J. Tsao Santin wrote: > 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.
Yes, certainly wouldn't hurt to have additional option(s) no little to no learning curve. > > > 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. > You might be happy to learn that pico is Free now, as part of Alpine, which has replaced Pine. -Albert _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
