2008/6/22 Paul Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by people who 
> are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a poor choice for the 
> text editor on the Live CD.
>
> Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on #opensolaris) 
> is the way to go.
>
> Those who are smart enough to edit text files with Vim or Emacs will soon 
> "pkg install vim" or whatever.
>
> I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps pico. Or is 
> there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as root?

A fast-track for integrating nano was proposed last year. I've pinged
the proposal author about it again to see what the status is.

In the meantime, please file an enhancement at bugs.opensolaris.org.

Thanks!

-- 
Shawn Walker
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