On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:57:07AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > 1) nano-tiny is relatively easy to use. > 2) nano-tiny has fewer bugs.
Using a non-vi-compatable editor on boot disks is a hanging offense that debian will pay for once sysadmins try to install Debian but realize they have better things to do than learn a whimpy editor. It would be excusable if it was emacs-compatable, but it's not. e3 supports vi, emacs, wordstar, AND pico bindings. It just depends whether you type vi, emacs, or pico to start it. Personally I would perfer ed to nano, since it is traditional and more people know how to use it.