Re: [atomic-devel] [PATCH] manifest: Drop documentation

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, at 09:40 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> 
> > There's a follow up from this, which is that dropping man-db causes "less"
> > to drop out.  Now...I don't know about anyone else but I really can't stand
> > using "more", so...here's an amended patch which explicitly adds "less".
> 
> The counter to this (and I don't feel super-strongly about it, being
> such a small package) is that we then get people saying "I can't stand
> using anything other than [nano|joe|emacs|vim-enhanced|<insert editor
> here>]" that would again contribute to the bloat of the Atomic image.

A valid point.  For the specific case of the pager, other tools
like "journalctl" call out to it.

I actually do use Emacs, although lately I've been trying hard to consistently
use configuration/automation instead of interactive editing on even dev VMs.

When I've had to use Emacs, it's possible to do via e.g.

docker run -ti -v /etc:/hostetc /bin/sh -c 'yum -y install emacs-nox; emacs'