From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 05:17:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07512 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA07507 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA08768; Thu, 23 May 1996 22:00:41 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605231230.WAA08768@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: editors To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:00:40 +0930 (CST) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, coredump@nervosa.com, winter@jurai.net, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3273.832849573@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 23, 96 04:06:13 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > So in other words, if there is room on the boot disk for two editors, one > > of which being vi, what do you vote for as the second editor? > > There is room on the boot disk for only one editor, actually.. :-( Delete it then, and make more space. You don't do any editing until _after_ you've installed stuff. Just put (whatever editor) in /stand or /root/bin or wherever in the bindist. Speaking of which, the bindist should probably be non-optional. (or at least under 'virgin install' conditions) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[