Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:56:43 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: David O'Brien <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fw: /rescue Message-ID: <20030508155643.A16895@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <1052433564.619.32.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:39:24PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.20030508161532.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1052433564.619.32.camel@cf.freebsd-services.com>
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:39:24PM +0100, Paul Richards wrote: ... > If people get used to nvi being available as a recovery tool then > they'll never learn the skills necessary to recover from severe system > failures. I think we're beginning to dumb down the expected skill levels > a bit too much. oh come on... an editor is just a convenience thing, plus there is a reasonable (though limited) emulation of vi in the "e3" editor (in ports/editors/e3) which is some 25k (yes twentyfive) statically linked. cheers luigi
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