Re: Simple editor (ee?)

[Soren Jacobsen <snj%pobox.com@localhost>]

On 02/09 21:50, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 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.

Ah, yes.  Some day I'll learn to read.  I'd support that as well.