Gentoo Install

Randall Randall randall at randallsquared.com
Thu Mar 20 06:30:12 CST 2003


Duane Attaway wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, John T wrote:
> 
> 
>>A bit of a newbie question here I am afraid, but what text editor comes
>>with the Gentoo install? I tried to install Gentoo the other day and got
>>all the way to configuring LILO. But I could not figure out how to write
>>lilo.conf.
> 
> 
> nano is the editor.  It is a clone of pico and is a minimalist editor with 
> a small help menu at the bottom of the screen.  
> 
> Funny how vi (vim) isn't the default for gentoo...

While I, too, prefer vim, nano is far easier to understand for those who've
never used a CLI editor before. :)

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