Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:50:01 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> Cc: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, bf1783@googlemail.com, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <ade45ae90906251350k4133ab05lf9f63b10d041abc1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090625130725.V13789@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <20090625130725.V13789@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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<snip> > 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code on a silly > rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, and one can learn basics of > ed in less than a hour. Don't you think so? > Not when editors like ee and vi are available and more spoken of in today's topics. And I know it was mentioned, but the OP seems to have ignored or refused to acknowledge /rescue/vi which is in the / partition as it's defaulted partitioned. Why are we still talking about /usr/bin/vi (dynamically linked) when /rescue/vi (statically linked) is both in / and would work for us?
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