Re: Emergency Editors (was Stabble Tag move)

[Jasse Jansson <jasse@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 14, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Bill Hacker wrote:

> Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
>
> > Hi Michel Talon,
> > you wrote.
> > MT> Note that in both cases a .termcap.db is first called in  user's 
> > home,
> > MT> so the presence of a copy of termcap.db in /root would solve the 
> > problem,
> > MT> perhaps a reduced copy, with just the console termcap.
> > If it's statically linked, how about integrating a fall back config
> > right into the binary? Far and by large, just about anything should do
> > lowest common denominator I'd say...
>
> We're way OT by now...
>
> What is needed is a better simple  'emergency' (single-user mode)
> editor than an 'ed'  - which is for *real* emergencies,
> or an over-qualified vi you can't even invoke.
>
> One that doesn't have the '*N*X disease' of needing libs and
> tools and db's scattered all over /dev/hades and half of Texas.
>
> - At the very least they fail to find /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
>
> What is needed should be self-contained. One binary, full stop.
>
> Nothing at all fancy. Text-mode, no frills. Nothing fancier than
> block moves, search and replace.
>
> That's all you need to get out of a jam.
>
> Bill

That was what I was asking for, but I didn't use enough words ;-)
Your description is perfect.

J^2