Editors in the default install Slimming down default install?)

[Brian Puccio]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 00:40 +0100, Markus Hubig wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> 
> > On ma, 2004-12-06 at 00:05 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > > > - nano is present to provide a basic text editing facility for recovery and
> > > >   diagnostic use, which anyone can easily learn and use
> > > don't you have cat, more, grep, less etc for that?
> > 
> > How are you going to uncomment a line using those?
> 
> Hmm, quite simple, maybe the 2nd one? 
> 
> | sed -ie "2s/^/#/" file.txt
> 
> or all starting with 'blub'?
> 
> | sed -ie "/^blub/s/^/#/" file.txt
> 
> just as easy as using ed ;-)

Why manually change the data on the partition using some low level tool?
Why not take the harddrive out and get a really small magnet and some
other expensive tools and flip a few bits by hand?

There's something to be said for using a simple tool with next to no
learning curve (nano) for a really simple task.
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