No sweat off my back, I'm a vi/vim guy, myself. The wet blanket applies to
people migrating who might not know vi/vim. Post below me mentions nano,
that's another good alternative. To give a little background, the guy
teaching RHCE classes was using nano during his demonstrations. I think it's
a linux thing, some people apparently never spend the time to pick up
vi/vim. Since OSOL seems to attract users from the linux crowd, it might be
wise to include things that are necessary on a system in order for them to
use it.

My personal opinion is that everybody should learn vi/vim, but I seriously
doubt that is going to happen.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> David Orman wrote:
>
>> Maybe joe + something equivalent to vim-minimal on Redhat Enterprise
>> Linux. If people want full functionality, then they can pull in "full" vim.
>> I'm with Andrew on the "no x required" bit. I've met a few people who do set
>> up text-only systems who hate vi/vim, and thus can barely get along in it.
>> It sounds like joe is a good compromise, I read up on 'jmacs' and it sounds
>> like it'll fill the emacs gap, without taking up all the space.
>>
>>
> Not to be a wet blanket (too much), but a prerequisite for any other editor
> (or any other community software) making it into the 2008.11 live CD is that
> it be integrated into the SFW[1] (or other appropriate) consolidation so
> that it will have been vetted to meet the redistributability requirements
> and be capable of being supported by Sun's support organization.  If nobody
> picks up the ball and does that for the various editors you're all fans of,
> there's nothing to discuss.
>
> Dave
>
> [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/sfwnv/
>
>
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