Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>>If you invoce it as /usr/bin/e3pi it behaves like nano, who in turns > behaves >>>and are based on pico. > > But e3vi makes me feel more at home ;-) > >> It's damn small in size..., also please take a look at >>>"embutils" and "ugrep" from contribs for size. >> >> afaik e3 is not yet in the rescue mode, is it? > > No, but at 10k it isn't exactly going to increase the rescue image much, > especially since it is statically linked (so it won't pull in any other > libraries). >
That's right, so let's put it in rescue mode, and make alias from nano/pico to the e3 flavors. > But, the issue isn't only which editor, but how users find it. > > If I think back to the first time I had linux up and running, without X > (ahh, back with RH5.2 ...), the commands I tried in order were something > like: > > help (not very useful to get the bash help compared to the help from > dos/Windows) > edit > x > dir > win > xwin > Xwin > setup > > So, how about aliasing edit to the editor of choice in rescue mode? > > (BTW, freebsd's default motd is a good idea ... something that could be > implemented and save a lot of newbies a lot of time) > well, I think we consider that newbies are logged into X, but making the motd more user freiendl won't hurt anbody for sure :) -- dams
