On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:44:23PM +0200, Martial Bornet wrote:
> Unless a distribution offers a choice for the default editor, it will be
> impossible to satisfy everyone.
> I don't despise nano nor emacs, I simply don't use them, and I'm sure I'll
> never will. So nano or emacs would be very bad choices for me.
> The best choice is to let the user choose it's own default editor.

And nano is an acceptable stopgap is the user is forced to editi before
he has chosen.

-- hendrik

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> 2015-07-16 10:32 GMT+02:00 Oz Tiram <oz.tiram@???>:
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> > I am an avid VIM user, and I despise VI.
> >
> > If devuan is about choice you can always apt-get install vim-minimal after
> > the default install.
> >
> > Nano is a better choice for anyone, because it is not as large as VIM.
> > Emacs is also not intuitive.
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> > I see no real obvious reason to default to vi instead of nano except
> > that it was the default editor in some unix platform (and still is in some
> > other).
> >
> > Nano, is not VI, but it's still in the spirit. A small unix tool that does
> > one thing
> > good, and excel at it. It is a simple and intuitive editor.
> >
> > VIM is a wonderful IDE, scripting language, terminal multiplexer and to a
> > certain
> > degree a religion too ([I worship it too][1]). This are all wonderful
> > traits, but not
> > necessarily a trait for a default installation.
> >
> > These are my two cents.
> >
> > Oz
> >
> > [1] A collection of my writings about VIM
> > http://oz123.github.io/tags/vim/
> >
> > --
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> > ---
> >
> > Imagine there's no countries
> > it isn't hard to do
> > Nothing to kill or die for
> > And no religion too
> > Imagine all the people
> > Living life in peace
> >
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