On Friday 25 Jan 2013 00:14:14 Tom Gundersen wrote:

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

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There is nothing stopping us dropping vi completely and just putting vim on the install media...

I'd favor that (as a vim user who always gets confused by vi on the install media).

-t

+1 I do "pacman -S vim" pretty quickly if there's any serious file tweaking to be done on install. I'd be in favour of a more advanced "newby-friendly" editor, too, for people that don't know Vim. Nano is pretty limited. It does make sense to me to have several options available, since we depend on text editing so much for installation. Paul