vi in SXCE is 1/2 the size of joe. Seems like the decision to replace vi with vim wasn't trying to save 1MBytes uncompressed. Also, changing system admin from a vi-like editor to an emacs-like editor is likely to cause a storming of the castle by pitchfork wielding masses... :-O -- richard
David Orman wrote: > Maybe joe + something equivalent to vim-minimal on Redhat Enterprise > Linux. If people want full functionality, then they can pull in "full" > vim. I'm with Andrew on the "no x required" bit. I've met a few people > who do set up text-only systems who hate vi/vim, and thus can barely > get along in it. It sounds like joe is a good compromise, I read up on > 'jmacs' and it sounds like it'll fill the emacs gap, without taking up > all the space. > > Cheers, > David > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Using "pfexec gedit" is fine if X is working. What if your problem > is you can't get X working and you need to create an xorg.conf > file and edit it, e.g. by selecting the vesa driver? I think there > is still a need to have a easy-to-use text mode editor in > OpenSolaris (the distro). > > It sounds like joe is the smallest out of the 3 so perhaps that > should be included in 2008.11? > > Cheers > > Andrew. > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
