Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-11 Thread Caleb Cushing
I'd like to say that one of the problems before was not simply the stripped down vi, but the fact that arch was setting up the example vimrc as default, which is not the actual vim default, and was never intended to be used as a distro default. so the settings people got confused long term knowledg

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-11 Thread Johannes Held
David Campbell : > Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-02-10 17:12:54 -0500: > > Is the current vi package actually usable for an install by someone more > > familiar with it? > Yes, I have used it a few times, and prefer it over nano. +1 The simple things (switching input modes and saving

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 09 Feb 2011 11:23 -0500, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking at FS#20778 and was wondering what we should do with it. > > While it is true that the "traditional vi" is buggy and not user > friendly. It does not seems that BusyBox is a good alternative. > > There are options

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread David Campbell
Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2011-02-10 17:12:54 -0500: > Is the current vi package actually usable for an install by someone more > familiar with it? Yes, I have used it a few times, and prefer it over nano. -- David Campbell

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 22:56 +0100, Marek Otahal wrote: > On Thursday 10 of February 2011 17:59:26 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:52:16 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:24 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > >> we did had vi being a stripped vim package in the pa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vi package

2011-02-10 Thread Marek Otahal
On Thursday 10 of February 2011 17:59:26 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:52:16 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 17:24 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > >> we did had vi being a stripped vim package in the past. We got rid of > >> it > >> because upstream vim started to