On Friday 11 November 2005 03:45 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 11 November 2005 3:36 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote
d) You're on a strange or brand new *nix system. vi is almost always the
only
editor you can count on being there.
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.
Paul
vi is a standard of sorts... get used to it. I don't use it on a regular basis and I only know how to do real simple visual editing with it. But it gets me by when putting up a fresh install of SuSE, or using the rescue system, or Tom's root boot. (I'm sure he'd be willing to put the editor of your choice on that floppy... <NOT> )