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Exactly. If you want to edit a text file, and you don't know how do do it in vi, emacs will not help you. There tons of other editors - pico, nano, joe, gedit (X11). One prefers vi, others prefer emacs. Feel free to install whatever you want. Windows installs only IE and Windows Media Player. If you prefer other browser/player you have to install it yourself.> Yes, I know you probaby get tons of requests for > this and that random program, but really, Emacs is the most likely > non-vi editor that someone might want, instantly upon or even during > the installation, in order to edit files to set up the machine, and > adding it to the ISO would only add 13.4 meg to the image. I'd be more concerned with reducing the size of the ISO. > Making users use unfamiliar editors precisely when > they're in the middle of installing a new OS image is a good way to > get them to make mistakes. There's no reason why vi should be unfamiliar to anyone who has used Linux for more than an hour. > if they don't > already know it, they're totally stuck and don't have any editor > except vi, if they can use it---which newbies can't. Why is it that a newbie can't use a very simple editor like vi but would be at home in emacs?
just my 0.02
Michael
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