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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Proposed defaults changes
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:44:21AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> ----- 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.


No idea. But if Richard Stallman were to have a distro, it might start
out with emacs.

I always install it first chance I get.

-- hendrik

>
> > 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
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