On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:13:52PM +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
On Saturday 30 August 2008 17:52:15 Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
Please not vim, since if you don't know vim, you very fast get stuck. I just installed and tried vim, and first it beeped on any key pressed. Then somehow it stopped, and I could not exit instead. I tried CTRL-C CTRL-C...., and it said ":quit to exit", but it did not work either. So "killall vim" was the way to exit. Yes, madness is the right word.
nano is more logical. Everything you type inserts, and i has a menu at the bottom always. So you can figure out he first time.
vim is a speciality editor, since you need to know it to use it. emacs is similar there. Both require you to learn it to do even simple things. And when installing a system, you need something so that you can edit the files to get started. For a novice there should be an editor that is self-explanatory, and it appears that nano can work there.
+1 i'm an emacs fan, but still i agree nano makes alot more sense for a base system. Especially becouse it behaves logical. (e.g. ctrl+c) which neither emcas nor vim do properly.
I am a vim user but I do agree that nano is the more convenient way for beginners. Besides that, the version of vim installed with base is compiled with a low fetureset and represents a different package than extra/vim, in my opinion this is very confusing and unnecessary! cheers wakeup -- An Ashanti Proverb from Ghana - It is because of beauty, that is why the woman holds her breasts when she runs, not because the breasts are going to fall -Fela Kuti