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.
But then I don't care since I anyway do: pacman -Rs vim nano
which in some cases requires you to correct config files before. -- best regards Arvid Ephraim Picciani