Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> If there is none, it uses /bin/vi. In fact I have sone a bit of
> investigations and it uses, in pathnames.h _PATH_VI which is defined in
> /usr/invlude/paths.h.
>
> So it is a missing dependency, in my opinion.
No it's not. People may want to use an actually usable editor and not have
their system polluted with this relict of history.
Flamewar alert!
[vi(1) is actually a /very/ usable editor. I believe some standard or other
requires its presence; in fact, it is one of the things you can depend on
finding on any Unixy system.]
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