[TUHS] End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference)

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

James Cloos wrote in
 <m3o6tgs1rw.fsf at lugabout.jhcloos.org>:
 |>>>>> "rs" == r stricklin <bear at typewritten.org> writes:
 |
 |rs> I ended up adding ‘elvis-tiny’ to
 |rs> it, which is pretty much entirely self-contained. Entirely adequate
 |rs> for purpose, perfect on maintainability requirements.
 |
 |busybox vi is also a good choice for tight systems.  especially when
 |using bb for other applications, of course.

it is (too, for me) super-tight.

 |i often keep a `ln -s busybox /bin/vi` around when i want something
 |small and quick.
 |
 |(and vimdiff for gentoo's etc-update.)
 |
 |(but emacs for most editing. :)

For years and years i want to go to Thomas Dickey's vile, but just
cannot get there.

"Problem with" nvi and nvi2 is they do not compile out of the box
of their repository, and nvi2 does not go at all here because it
does not include the Berkeley DBv1, and Linux does not have it,
nvi just includes the few kilobyte.

(Btw OpenBSD has the usr.bin/mg, an emacs-style thing, but pretty
small.  I do not know wether someone somewhere has the small make
compatibility shim to make it a portable thing.)

--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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|During summer's humble, here's David Leonard's grumble
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|The black bear,          The black bear,
|blithely holds his own   holds himself at leisure
|beating it, up and down  tossing over his ups and downs with pleasure
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|Farewell, dear collar bear