[aklug] Re: Emacs, vi(m) or other

From: michael huff <mphuff@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 2010 - 00:38:48 AKDT

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>wrote:
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> On 08/15/10 22:06, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Friday 13 August 2010 20:24:55 Christopher Kunzler wrote:
> >> Sorry about brining up religion, I was just wondering what
> >> everyone's preference is.
> >
> > I can't control myself any longer .
> >
> > Caveat, desktop user pov.
> >
> > Of course it depends...on the job at hand
> >
> > For simple editing of a text file I use nano, default on a Debian
> install, so
> > it is everywhere :)
> >
> > I like vi, but I don't need the features so I forget how to use it.
> >
> > emacs, never installed it, and in recent memory, it doesn't get
> installed by
> > default. Seems like there was a time when emacs was installed...hmmm.
> >
> >
>
> Probably the reason Emacs isn't installed everywhere be default is
> because even the stripped down Emacs binary is 10M+ in size, while nano
> is around 100K. Not sure how vim weighs in, off the top of my head.
>
> - --
> Christopher Howard
> frigidcode.com
> theologia.indicium.us
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> on Fedora 13, here's the output of ls -l /bin/vi
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 721952 Mar 25 15:24 /bin/vi

/bin/vi --version reveals it's vim.

nvi (on Fedora 13), is 400k.

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