On Friday 11 November 2005 4:09 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Friday 11 November 2005 3:45 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I believe that's the case in the SuSE rescue system, and it's unfortunate. There are other simple editors around and it wouldn't be hard to include one of them, but it's not something that I as a user can do. Vi has effectively been the standard editor for both Unix and Linux systems since AT&T included in System III. it does the job and it is on virtually every Unix and Linux system. I don't think that SuSE wants to get into an editor war especially since the Novell HQ is within easy reach of RMS. (And Ximian is in his back yard).
I don't think anyone would argue that vi isn't the standard editor. My point is that it's an ill-chosen and obsolete one, especially since it's so easy to include a second one as a more rational choice. That would make everyone happy, including those who believe that vi is indeed perfection incarnate. Paul