On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:20:36AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:03:21 +0200
> Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@???> wrote:
>
> > just run "vimtutor" and do what it says... it's only difficult if you
> > don't know the buttons.
>
> I will come down on the other side of the argument: As a Debian noob (after years of using Slack, Mandrake-Mandriva-Mageia) I was completely lost the first time I was thrown at boot-time into the recovery console, and there was no vi available...
>
> Cheers,

I agree that a standard (minimal) vi should be included in the basic
install and possibly made available within the installer (even if "ed"
is always there and should be more than enough for simple recovery
tasks by any vi user, BTW... :P).

HND

KatolaZ

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