[Nix-dev] Vim on the Live CD

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viriketo at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 11:12:35 CEST 2011


On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:12:22PM -0700, shea at shealevy.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Replacing nvi with vim in the base live cd profile increases the size of
> the minimal ISO by 8M (191 M to 199 M, a 4% size increase) on my system.
> Would anyone mind if I committed that replacement?

I'd also prefer vim there. And I forgot why we don't have vim there; I remember
that I added the nvi expressions just to get "some vi" on the CD, because there
were some arguments against vim.

Maybe someone remembers them. :)



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