On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catw...@archlinux.us> wrote: > Le Wed, 6 May 2009 14:53:43 -0500, > Aaron Griffin <aaronmgrif...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> Might be worth seeing if we can find a patch to fix the crash at least. > > Patching might be a good idea, but if you just patch the crash I think it > will still be even more dangerous to put this version of vi in core because > of the behavior described by André Ramaciotti. > > If any user whose language is not English writes a comment at the top of a > config file (say rc.conf or /etc/sudoers if he runs visudo) and saves it, > this config file will be emptied and he won't know it. Guess what will happen > when he tries to reboot. > > There is a simple, easy to use and mostly bug-free editor in core, it's nano. > Why the need for another one?
Not everyone likes or prefers nano. More to the point - a working vi is required to be POSIX compliant (or maybe it's SUSv3)
