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Comment by graemep

7 hours ago

Beginners to NetBSD who are not vi users.

It's funny because I learned enough vi to be useful specifically because of NetBSD forcing you to change "rc_configured=NO" to "rc_configured=YES" in rc.conf.

That's not an empty set? I'm an eMacs guy, and I use vi when on the shell

  • I think there are a lot of people who are not comfortable with vi. Its much the same reason that some Linux distros default to nano.

    I spend a fair bit of time on Linux command lines, but I use a mix of different TUI and GUI editors (including ones that work over ssh for editing files on servers), and none of those are vi. I can manage vi if I must, but its an effort and distracts from the task because I have to think about how to do things in vi.

    • Same here...

      My favourite editor is mcedit, which you get by installing mc (midnight commander)

      Like nano but (IMO) easier to use with a lot more features