From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20563 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Aug 2003 06:25:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25511 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2003 06:25:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4465DA.9040808@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:25:30 -0400 From: Stewart Honsberger Organization: Gentoo Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030709 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200308200112.09533.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <1061383163.415.8.camel@vertigo> <20030820160508.00002737.moixa@gmx.ch> <20030820152740.GC30449@time> <20030820185654.103f6347.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <1061394716.414.42.camel@vertigo> <20030820093131.00001665.EvvL@RustedHalo.net> <3F445510.1070501@gentoo.org> <20030821054220.GA3498@cerberus.oppresses.us> <3F445FB7.3050808@gentoo.org> <20030821060830.GA3950@cerberus.oppresses.us> In-Reply-To: <20030821060830.GA3950@cerberus.oppresses.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat X-Archives-Salt: 00980800-deb1-4861-8f14-63eb3ec6b906 X-Archives-Hash: a26c1de85956a5473b2f1fbc055f1da3 Jon Portnoy wrote: > I could make a case that emacs is just as standard as vi - should we > include emacs? [...] > Why does any of that involve doing anything that nano cannot do but vim > can? The long and short of it? "On all POSIX.2 conforming systems vi is available. This allows users to move from one POSIX system to another without needing to learn a new editor." The selection of Nano seems to be rather arbitrary. Why not Joe, Pico or any of the other simple, user-friendly editors? -- Stewart Honsberger http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ "Capitalists, by nature, organize to protect themselves. -- Geeks, by nature, resist organizaion." -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list