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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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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