[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

Attila attila at invalid.invalid
Sat Aug 30 14:12:24 EDT 2008


On Samstag, 30. August 2008 17:52 Karolina Lindqvist wrote:

> 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 And just for the stats i use joe to edit config files on the console.

> But then I don't care since I anyway do:
> pacman -Rs vim nano

And this works? I even see vi if i run a "crontab -e" which is the reason that
i don't remove it until now. This is not bad because i use anacron and so i
have only to fight one time for one line with vi.-)

See you, Attila




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