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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:23, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting evraire AT tuwg.com:
> > > > Do people use elvis or do they change to vim after install ?
> > > > should elvis stay and vim be added to the list of editors ?
> > >
> > >   I personally use vim over elvis on anything but the most basic files,
> > > for which nano suits my purposes.  So my vote is to supplant elvis with
> > > vim :)
> >
> > For all that you'll need vim for at that stage, you can use elvis, which
> > saves about 1.8Mb of space (by not using vim).
> >
> > -sandalle
> 
> actually about 5 or 6 MB when you look at the data files vim puts 
> in /usr/share
> 
> I think from reading all this elvis should stay in the iso_root, jed and
> slang 
> can be removed from iso_root but still selectable as editor from menu and 
> installed automatically, and vim should be added  as editor to the menu and 
> installed automatically, but aliased/changed to elvis for usage within the 
> installer.
> 
> Does that sound like a good compromise ?

Sounds good to me.

> And if jed is removed from iso_root, should it be aliased/changed to nano or
> 
> elvis ?

Duh! elvis. ;)

-sandalle

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