From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 01:56:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517E41065673 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:56:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@apsara.com.sg) Received: from babylon.webvis.net (babylon.webvis.net [202.157.163.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948A78FC0C for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@apsara.com.sg) Received: from [10.0.1.240] ([119.73.191.194]) by apsara.com.sg ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:55:48 +0800 SGT From: Erich Dollansky Organization: apsara green technology pte ltd To: Polytropon Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:55:48 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260824.15069.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626030700.c68b690e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090626030700.c68b690e.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906260955.50697.erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: bf1783@googlemail.com, Manish Jain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Erik Osterholm Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:56:00 -0000 Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:07:00 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:13 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > To be honest, I never have had a problem with /usr since > > disks are large enough to have all on only one. > > Mostly, partitioning according to directory structures has > nothing to do with disk space, but with intention. There are > many many arguments pro and contra partitioning. It's a matter > of intention. > this is not what I mean. I wanted to say, as long as the boot disk come up, I also have /usr available when I have the space to have it all on the same disk. That /usr does not have to be on the same disk, is a different question. If I do this, I will also be aware of the consequences. > > > > It would be even better to have an editor like joe in > > > > /bin than anything like vi. > > > > > > Certainly. > > > > Ok, then let us support joe. > > Or the Midnight Commander's editor, mcedit. :-) > > The good thing about vi - yes, there is such a thing - is the > fact that it even works completely under the weirdest > circumstances, e. g. if you are on a terminal line that does > not have cursor keys or function keys, then you can still > use the full power of vi, as long as you know how to master > it, but that's true for anything in the UNIX world. > Aren't all - or at least most - of the Unix editors like this? > > But isn't there emacs in the ports too? > > Sure, let's take emacs into the OS, as well as any other editor > one could imagine. And because most people like graphical > applications, let's include OpenOffice for editing > configuration files in maintenance mode. :-) Yes, this is the idea of the ideas. But why don't we take Microsoft Word running under wine? I mean, if we strike, we should have a real strike. Erich