On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:20:36AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:03:21 +0200 > Peter Maloney <peter.malo...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > > just run "vimtutor" and do what it says... it's only difficult if you > > don't know the buttons. > > I will come down on the other side of the argument: As a Debian noob (after > years of using Slack, Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia) I was completely lost the > first time I was thrown at boot-time into the recovery console, and there was > no vi available... > > Cheers,
I agree that a standard (minimal) vi should be included in the basic install and possibly made available within the installer (even if "ed" is always there and should be more than enough for simple recovery tasks by any vi user, BTW... :P). HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
