emacs in default selection ?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 20:35 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Oliver Grawert [2004-10-06 20:21 +0200]:
> > hi,
> > Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2004, 21:30 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > Both vim and emacs are traditional Linux editors, and while they are not
> > > suitable for a front-line position in the desktop (being rather
> > > idiosyncratic), they are made available for those who are accustomed to
> > > using them.
> > > 
> > > The fact that vim-gnome currently adds an item to the menu is a bug (#1771).
> > while i understand your points and in fact totally agree on both i would rather
> > suggest to leave them both uninstalled on the cd (like i.e. gcc), a devloper will
> > know how to install them and joe user (who probably sits in a so called third world 
> > country and has pretty limited HW) doesn't need them.
> 
> Although I use to have vim as the only editor on all of my systems,
> I'm certainly not the representative user of Ubuntu, so actually I
> agree with you.
> 
> We should have vi installed by default though, since it has a long
> standing Unix tradition and is quite small. People who want the full
> power of vim will know how to get it.
> 
I'd rather we just picked one vi implementation across the whole
distribution; vim is the best, thus should be the vi we include.

Scott
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