Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:07:00 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: bf1783@googlemail.com, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090626030700.c68b690e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <200906260824.15069.erich@apsara.com.sg> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906251328.55846.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090625203231.GA8436@barragry.com> <200906260824.15069.erich@apsara.com.sg>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:13 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> wrote: > To be honest, I never have had a problem with /usr since disks are > large enough to have all on only one. Mostly, partitioning according to directory structures has nothing to do with disk space, but with intention. There are many many arguments pro and contra partitioning. It's a matter of intention. > > > It would be even better to have an editor like joe in /bin > > > than anything like vi. > > > > Certainly. > > > Ok, then let us support joe. Or the Midnight Commander's editor, mcedit. :-) The good thing about vi - yes, there is such a thing - is the fact that it even works completely under the weirdest circumstances, e. g. if you are on a terminal line that does not have cursor keys or function keys, then you can still use the full power of vi, as long as you know how to master it, but that's true for anything in the UNIX world. > But isn't there emacs in the ports too? Sure, let's take emacs into the OS, as well as any other editor one could imagine. And because most people like graphical applications, let's include OpenOffice for editing configuration files in maintenance mode. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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