Arch Linux uses nano in its boot drive. Pretty simple, gets the job done. (They also include vi.)
Dave Raymond On 11/16/19, Roderick <hru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote: > >> I assumed that the canonical reference for ed was K&P, "The Unix >> Programming > > Reference = man page. Under /usr/share/doc/usd/ in an old BSD System > you may find Brian W. Kernighan ed Tutorial. Just google for it. > >> Sam looks very interesting too, > > Yes. It is a perfectionated ed, not anymore line oriented, and with gui. > I am tired of emacs bloating and I am thinking on sam as an alternative, > but the background colour is annoying. > >> What is sos? Is it something like open mode in Vi? > > Editor in DEC 10 with TOPS-10, I think standard there. > > Rod. > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
