Dapper: vim instead of nano as editor alternative?

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Mar 17 06:37:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:50 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:49:17 +0100
> Bas van Gils <basvg at cs.ru.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Us old timers 
> > > get to pay the price of changing one setting and in return the OS 
> > > becomes much more usable to lots of new users. 
> >  
> > Exactly! Couldn't agree more. The power of linux lies in the fact that you get
> > a choice. Being flexible is a good thing. Just change the $EDITOR and $VISUAL
> > settings in your chell (~/.bashrc or ~/.cshrc or something similar) to the
> > editor of your choise.
> 
> Or doing it "The Debian Way (tm)":
> 
>  $ sudo update-alternatives --config editor
> 


What makes you thing that is the Debian Way??

Vram



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> Peter Garrett
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