On 24 January 2013 16:27, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 11:05:22 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap > ... > > > > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in > > [extra] (do we really need 2 text editors in [core] ?). > > Vi is the standard UNIX text-editor. Many admins rely on the fact that vi > is > available everywhere. It really should be in core. > > Also, I know you might be referring to "plain vi", which is a completely > different beast to Vim, but the latter (which provides "vi" too) has a > *huge* > userbase. Calling it crap is just bizarre... > > Paul > What about stuff like visudo? Maybe make it an optdepend or something? -- Jason Steadman
