Re: Simple editor (ee?)

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:08:48AM -0800, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 02/07 17:30, David Brownlee wrote:
> >     Wonder if we should add this to the wiki list:
> >
> >     NetBSD should provide a simple text editor - its ridiculous
> >     to expect a new user to start with vi (note: vi is my editor
> >     of choice, but I defy anyone to argue that it is suitable
> >     for a new user who just wants to edit rc.conf)
> >
> >     Users can add editors from pkgsrc, but there needs to be
> >     something *always* available.
> >
> >     FreeBSD picked ee (in pkgsrc as editors/easyedit).  Its
> >     not to big (78K), only links against libc, needs no other
> >     files (apart from termcap). It includes its own mini curses
> >     (20K) but doesn't work correctly with NetBSD's curses
> >
> >     What do people think?
> 
> Definitely a good idea.  The ncurses dependency is not a problem, as
> ncurses is already required for GNOME (enchant -> hunspell -> ncurses).

David's proposing to include in the base system.

Andrew