On Monday 24 March 2008 15:59, David Boyes wrote:
>4) Force everyone to learn at least the basics of vi listed in #2.
>Inevitably there will be some reason why you can't install something
>better.
Vi is still the "default" editor for Linux, even though the GNU project has
written the "nano" editor. Weighing in at a svelte 377K when built with all
features enabled under SLES 9 for z. That's far smaller than the 1.4MB vim.
Links against fewer shared libraries too. It uses an "emacs-like" key
mapping, and actually shows a table of common keys on-screen so you can
figure out how to use it when you start it up. It uses ncurses, so it won't
work on 3270 either.
Unfortunately, the major distros do not seem to have picked this up. Anyone
else run across nano yet? It builds out of the box under Linux on z.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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