su, 2005-12-18 kello 13:38 -0500, Joey Hess kirjoitti: > One argument I can think of for keeping nvi in base is that it is the > closest to bug-compatible with the original vi. However, I don't think > that will prevent hardcore vi users from easily using vim-tiny if > it's in base.
I'm one of the people who prefers nvi over vim. I do so quite strongly, because I find that nvi obeys my fingers and vim does not. The differences are minute, of course, but they are really irritating. Unfortunately, I can't enlist them properly, since my fingers don't talk to me: I notice vim's incompatibility from the fact that my fingers have to keep correcting text under vim, but not under nvi. On days when I'm generally annoyed already, if I accidentally use vim instead of nvi, I can get quite lyrical with my cursing. I'm not bothered at all by switching nvi with vim-tiny in base. As long as I can install nvi if I want to, I'm happy. I'd even be happy without any vi-like editor in base. As long as there is one editor in base that I can without great difficulty in an emergency (nano seems to qualify), I don't need anything more. In fact, given that it's good for base to be small, I'd like to suggest that we don't have more than one editor there. -- The most difficult thing in programming is to be simple and straightforward. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]