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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:13 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>, bf1783@googlemail.com
Subject:   Re: The question of moving vi to /bin
Message-ID:  <200906260824.15069.erich@apsara.com.sg>
In-Reply-To: <20090625203231.GA8436@barragry.com>
References:  <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906251328.55846.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090625203231.GA8436@barragry.com>

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Ho,

On 26 June 2009 am 04:32:31 Erik Osterholm wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:28:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On 25 June 2009 pm 13:03:01 Manish Jain wrote:
> > > > If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're
> >
> > isn't there ee in the base system?
>
> ee is in /usr/bin, just like vi.
>
my mistake.

To be honest, I never have had a problem with /usr since disks are 
large enough to have all on only one. Of course, those days, when 
it was two or more disks in a system and /usr died, it could have 
helped.

> > It would be even better to have an editor like joe in /bin
> > than anything like vi.
>
> Certainly.
>
Ok, then let us support joe.

But isn't there emacs in the ports too?

Erich

> Erik

PS: according to the spelling, you originate from further north 
than me



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