[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Friday 25 Jan 2013 00:14:14 Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > 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