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.