On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:01:24 +0200
Uriel <uriel_AT_berlinblue.org> wrote:
> Anyone that considers for even one second to use nano should be taken
> out and shot on the spot.
It's not so bad if you build it with the --disable-wrapping-as-root
configure option and only use it as root.
In case you're wondering why I know *that*, nano is the least bad
editor on the standard Arch Linux install CD image (the others are joe
and traditional, breaks-if-you-push-a-cursor-key-in-insert-mode vi;
I'd be happy with ed, but they didn't provide it), and I just peeked at
the PKGBUILD to see if the Arch folks had needed to patch /etc/nanorc
to make it stop mangling long lines. Apparently not...
Robert Ransom
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