11 Nov
2005
11 Nov
'05
22:25
On Fri November 11 2005 5:15 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
vi is a standard of sorts... get used to it.
I agree that it's a standard, but it's an ill-chosen one. It wouldn't be all that hard for SuSE and others to include pico or some other more modern editor as well -- the space it takes is, I'm pretty sure, trivial. This is a case of tradition triumphing over rationality. maybe during the install process you could choose youe editor, not a bad idea..
For another example of obsolete tradition, look at the manpage of stty.
loook at almost ANY man page, and a windows person would run screaming back to a DOS prompt! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc