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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] vi for beginners
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 16/07/2015 20:41, Klaus Ethgen a écrit :
> >I always get stessed if emacs get started on a new computer where I did
> >not check the editor settings.
>
>     Did it actually happen to you or did you have a nightmare? Did
> you experience a distro which installs it by default and makes it
> the default editor? Did anybody in the list ever propose to force
> people to use it?


Not with emacs. With vi. I have had a distro which installs vi by
default and forced me to use it until I managed to install emacs.

-- hendrik

>
>     I'm just curious :-)


I think the only reason it happens with vi nstead of emacs is that vi
is specified in the POSIX standard.

-- hendrik