Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:17:45 -0800 From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: total newbee questions Message-ID: <26ad263vhi.d26@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20040324171235.GB25716@archangel.daleco.biz> (Kevin Kinsey's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:12:35 -0600") References: <000a01c41159$505ab560$6400a8c0@laptop> <20040324171235.GB25716@archangel.daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: > If all you've got available > is /, then I feel your pain, for ed(1) and red(1) are somewhat > "like kicking dead whales down the beach" compared to something > more modern... :-) You can avoid that pain without making / much bigger by installing the editors/e3 port and moving /usr/local/bin/e3* to /bin/. You'll get fair "vi", "emacs", "pico", "wordstar", and "nedit" emulators, all in less than 13000 bytes. I'm sure ed(1) will be with us 'till the end, but I wish "e3" was also included in the base i386 FreeBSD. Or even a bigger (but small) "vi" editor clone that would work on all CPUs. There are several that seem negligibly small compared to much of the other stuff I see in /*bin/.
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