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Author: Rob Owens
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik@???>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Micky Del Favero wrote:
>> I vote to put vi as default editor in devuan because vi is the default
>> editor in every unix since ever and every unix user has to know how to
>> use vi!
>
> NO. Not every Unix user. Only the ones that use Unix variants that
> force vi on them. Only those have to use vi.


Hendrik,

Just curious -- do any distros come with emacs as the default editor? I
don't use emacs, and have never tried running it from a default install
of any distro I've ever used.

> nano is, as far as I can see, nobody's favorite editor. But it's also
> nobody's anathema. It will give you enough breathing room to choose
> the editor you really want.


Agreed. Even though I am always annoyed when I run 'visudo' on a new
system and get nano. But I know how to change it so it's no big deal.

-Rob