Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:02:30 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: bf1783@googlemail.com, Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090626040230.18f606b1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <200906260955.50697.erich@apsara.com.sg> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260824.15069.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626030700.c68b690e.freebsd@edvax.de> <200906260955.50697.erich@apsara.com.sg>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:55:48 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> wrote: > this is not what I mean. I wanted to say, as long as the boot disk > come up, I also have /usr available when I have the space to have > it all on the same disk. I see. The fact that /usr isn't available after booting in maintenance mode (SUM) is often important for recovery purposes. The OS leaves it to the admin to take such important decisions. :-) > > The good thing about vi - yes, there is such a thing - is the > > fact that it even works completely under the weirdest > > circumstances, e. g. if you are on a terminal line that does > > not have cursor keys or function keys, then you can still > > use the full power of vi, as long as you know how to master > > it, but that's true for anything in the UNIX world. > > > Aren't all - or at least most - of the Unix editors like this? I think most of them are. But, for example, I don't think that the mcedit (Midnight Commander's editor) is very usable without cursor and function keys... > > > But isn't there emacs in the ports too? > > > > Sure, let's take emacs into the OS, as well as any other editor > > one could imagine. And because most people like graphical > > applications, let's include OpenOffice for editing > > configuration files in maintenance mode. :-) > > Yes, this is the idea of the ideas. > > But why don't we take Microsoft Word running under wine? > > I mean, if we strike, we should have a real strike. That's a very good suggestion. But let's take into mind that we do need the most advanced and modern MICROS~1 technology, so FreeBSD should include a pirated copy of "Windows 7" in order to run the latest and most expensive pirated copy of "Office", programmed in Java, running through "Flash". With music. And dancing puppies. If - then real. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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