Re: [woody-discussion] editors: nano-2.9.3 --with-slang --enable-tiny

[David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>]

bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au> writes:

> How come it has to be like vi ?

Remember the last time there was a discussion about which editor(s)
should be on the boot-floppies?

> It just has to be a small easy to use editor that can perform basic file
> editing and is usable to everyone.

FWIW, I agree.  ae's interface is very clumsy (and doubly so in vi
mode).  But this is not a release critical sort of issue.  People
should be grateful that we have any kind of editor at all on the root
disk...