The question of moving vi to /bin

[Manish Jain]

> Hi,
> 
> I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people seem to be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that that there is an easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available, even if you are in single-user mode ?
> 
> That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed and /rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least there can be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of people could possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem again, I suspect, might be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need the terminal database to be kept under / directly, which goes against freebsd's obsession with a micro-minimalistic base.
> 
> One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that provides only for the most commonly used terminals to be placed under /, and single-user mode set up to use this database.


Hi,

I agree that vi is nowhere as easy to use as ee. Since a lot of people 
seem to be happy with ee, why not make it available under /bin so that 
that there is an easy-to-use, readily-working editor always available, 
even if you are in single-user mode ?

That in fact was the essence of this entire thread. The thing is /bin/ed 
and /rescue/vi have their unique problems and peculiarities. If at least 
there can be a general consensus that ee should be under /bin, a lot of 
people could possibly find it beneficial in emergencies. The problem 
again, I suspect, might be that moving ee to /bin would possibly need 
the terminal database to be kept under / directly, which goes against 
freebsd's concept of a micro-minimalistic base.

One solution might be to keep a pared-down version of the database that 
provides only for the most commonly used terminals placed under  /  and 
single-user mode set up to use this database.

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