[issue1325] minimum development facilities for the graphics mode

[Elmar Stellnberger]

Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at elstel.org> added the comment:

Am 2014-11-23 um 06:07 schrieb Dave:
> Dave <lordkappa at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
>> On a rescue console you sometimes need to run a script from your own computer
>> or one just downloaded from the web that needs slight modifications
> If you're able to download a script, what's to stop you from getting vim-gtk
> from the repo after boot?

I would not trust a binary download as I can not read it line by line.
Even un-[t]ar ing an archive can make you subject to an infection.
Besides this I am most often using scripts from the home directory
of my hard disk, so that the argument does not apply.

>
>>> The best option would be vim-gtk with 7MB of additional disk space required.
> vim already comes with GRML; For me, the 7MB isn't necessary when regular vim
> works just fine. Other than better mouse and tab support, Does it offer some
> compelling additional functionality over regular vim? vimdiff is already
> included for diff support; I'm not sure I'd need/use vim-gtk over regular vim
> even if it were included.
Better mouse and tab support are just one part of the play. Scrolling text
and making full use of the clipboard are two other core features you
can hardly do without. They are especially useful for editing medium and
large size script collections. However some other features like font 
scaling
on the fly are also quite handy ...

>
>>> What do other folks/devs think about adding vim-gtk to grml-full? yes/maybe/no?
> Maybe, but If you want a proper graphical text editor, I'd rather go all the way
> and use geany; I don't feel vim-gtk is compelling enough.
Geany would of course have been an option but GRML developers want to keep
the iso really tiny. So gvim seems to be a good compromise to me. That is to
confess: gvim currently is my favourite editor which I am using for 
almost any
task. Unimaginable to suffice just with console-vim for all of it ...


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assignedto: mika
messages: 4870, 4880, 4894, 4898, 4909, 4910
nosy: estellnb, mika
priority: package
status: need-eg
title: minimum development facilities for the graphics mode

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