On 20-Dec-05, 09:58 (CST), Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My feeling is that having vim-tiny installed is in the middle in the > "amount of features" spectrum among having nvi and having vim-nottiny. > I feel that Joey's (and mine) point in having vim-tiny instead of nvi in > base is that being in the middle of that spectrum is better than being > in the nvi corner, given that the size is comparable.
If vim-tiny does have a significant feature advantage over nvi, then yeah, that makes sense. Since I'm not a vim user, I can't guess how many vim users will start vim-tiny and almost immediately wonder "where the fsck is foo; oh yeah, need to install vim". If that number is "most of them", then defaulting to vim-tiny over nvi is not a win. Of course, that doesn't make it a loss, either, if the size difference is negligible. Perhaps asking over on debian-boot with the actual numbers might make sense. > Do you have any other suggestion in addition to the two proposed to make > vim more vi compatible? Nope, now that you've corrected my mistake about syntax highlighting being on by default. Regards, Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]