On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive > than Ctrl-V.
That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I am a UNIX systems administrator); most of the time my vi is actually vim; but I wouldn't for a second recommend it to anyone who was not already familiar with the original vi (or any other modal editor: I can't name any others). Just about anyone who isn't an old-hand UNIX user will have some familiarity with a modeless editor and will have used an environment where CTRL+V is the key binding for 'paste', as it's been the default for over 10 years in GNOME, KDE, Mac OS, and Windows, to name but four. Nano is a perfectly fine, minimal-featured modeless editor. It was written as a F/OSS clone of 'pico', which is not DFSG free. It is considerably more intuitive and user friendly to the vast majority of people who are new to Debian or Linux (and thus are not already affiliated with any particular church or cult of $EDITOR). See <http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.1/faq.html#1.4> for more information. -- Jon Dowland
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