Calm down; vi is part of the linux heritage, and will therefor always be around.
Well, enough peoble have been ranting about that.
If you want another editor (let's assume pico in our example), put this line
somewhere in /etc/profile:
export EDITOR="pico"
Hope this helps you calm your nerves. ;-)
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:33:42 Mallard wrote:
> Why did Mandrake pick the most geekyist editor for a setup that is
> suposto be easy for users?
>
> Anyone else seen this joke of a program?
>
> With Vim all you have to do is spend a half hour trying to get it give
> you help, then scroll all the way to the bottom of a super long
> whoopy-do list of usless keyboard commands that you will forget a day
> after you use them. Please get rid of it!
>
> Try ":qw" to get out and save what you just did WTF is that? Did a human
> design this? That is if you figure out how to get into "insert" mode and
> out of it again. GET RID OF THIS! TRASH IT! Ban it from the Net!
>
> Couldn't use "X" or "E" for exit or maybe cntl-X or Z, no - had to be
> big geeks and do it some STUPID way. What the hell were these guys
> thinking? Do they live on this planet? Why does Mandrake support this?
> Trash it!
>
> Yea, I am pissed. All I wanted to do is set up my cron file ("crontab
> -e") and that brings up the "default" editor. Searching all over to find
> where the "default" editor is set up, couldn't find it. Another waste of
> time.
>
> I don't know who thinks this is some great thing, WOW! It has zillions
> of features! It's not 1982 anymore, we have word processors that have a
> better human interface than terminals did, get a life geeks! (directed
> at the guys who wrote and keep updating "vi" and "vim")
>
> Why not make the default editor a nice simple one, like maybe pico,
> where the commands are shown. I can't see anyone using a command line
> editor for much else than a few simple changes, there are better simple
> editors in KDE and such. Damn that really pissed me off, and on top of
> that you guys changed from "vi" (same stupid geeky crap) to "vim" (worse
> geeky crap) in 7.1 did someone request this? I want to know who!
>
> Figure if someone is a big enough geek to want vim, let them spend their
> life away trying to figure it out (and how to change the default editor
> to do it).
>
> Thanks for the soapbox, I had my say (please forward this to whoever
> makes these program installation choices, if he's not a big geek that
> is).
>
> Sorry for the bandwith waste, had to get this off my chest. Anyone else
> feel like I do about this?
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