On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 18:53:11 +0200
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

>      I agree with you that, if an editor is as small and more intuitive 
> and self-explanatory than Nano, it can be a good choice. But let's not 
> complicate the problem by envisionning too many combinations. The 
> proposed alternative was:
>      1) have nano and vi installed and nano as the default, like in Debian
>      2) have vi only

I fail to see the problem:
If I want to use vi, I invoque $ vi
if I want to use nano, I invoque $ nano

The problem only arioe when I was sent to a rescus console, and $ vi does not start anything, probably in hindsight because I have /usr on a separate partition, and vi is unavailable in such a case.

And of course at the time I did not know about nano...

Cheers,

Ron.
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