Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:32:30 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: total newbee questions Message-ID: <20040324193230.GA27341@archangel.daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <26ad263vhi.d26@mail.comcast.net> References: <000a01c41159$505ab560$6400a8c0@laptop> <20040324171235.GB25716@archangel.daleco.biz> <26ad263vhi.d26@mail.comcast.net>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:17:45AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> writes: > > 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/. That does sound nice. However, I don't suppose it'll be done, for either licensing or historical reasons. [But who am I to say, of course ;-) --- I guess nothing stops me from doing it myself.... ] That's quite a bit smaller even than ee, or even ed! I may try e3 ... thanks for the pointer, or I may make it SOP to cp ee(1) to /bin when setting up boxes in the future; I do recall once upon a time being stranded with nothing but ed(1) on a disk that was pretty screwed up.... Kevin Kinsey
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