On 2020-03-16 12:42 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 16, Thomas Pircher <thp+deb...@p5r.uk> wrote: > > > Would you consider nvi as an alternative to vim-tiny? It is quite small > Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> > Installed-Size: 1.605 kB > > I think that busybox still wins.
If we are thinking about minimal editors, zile is a good candidate: no deps, remarkably small and functional. It has become my default 'minimal useful editor' for installs and chroots. It's emacs keys rather than vi keys, I don't know if that's better or worse in general: both are terrible for the uninitated because they are unobvious to get out of (major advantage of nano there). I hadn't realised how fat nano is (not the only consideration of course, but zile is very good on this measure and surprisingly functionfull). Instaled sizes: zile: 365K busybox: 786K vim-tiny: 1547K nvi: 1605K busybox-static: 2045K nano: 2469K I don't suppose we want to change away from the 'you always get at least vi' concept, but I only ever use vi if there is nothing else available and I can't install something else, so I like the fact that we always have nano. I'd like it even more if we always had zile. Just a thought (I'm _really_ not trying to start a vi/emacs argument, but perhaps it is inevitable). If you've never heard of it, I suggest you give it a try. v. handy. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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