On Sat 2008-08-30 17:52, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
lördagen den 30 augusti 2008 skrev Alessio Bolognino:
This might end up in a flamwar, but if we have to remove one editor I would vote vor vim and keep nano. [... more nonsense ]
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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.
But then I don't care since I anyway do: pacman -Rs vim nano
Well, I was just trolling; it's very likely that both nano and vi(m) will stay in base, so this discussion doesn't make sense, but vi is not just "an editor", it's the standard UNIX editor. -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com