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
