From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 30 0:54:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (tcnet00-31.austin.texas.net [209.99.42.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D7D14C0B for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 00:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Received: from donhm.calcasieu.com (localhost.calcasieu.com [127.0.0.1]) by donhm.calcasieu.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01439; Sun, 30 May 1999 02:42:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread@texas.net) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 02:42:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Dustin Lang Subject: RE: Ramblings from a Newbie... Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well it's late and php is kicking my butt On 30-May-99 Dustin Lang wrote: > > > I have just one question, but it's not specific to FreeBSD or even BSD. > Why on earth do people use vi? I'm not trying to start a flame war or > anything, but it's just so unfriendly. "Contrary to popular belief, vi is user-friendly. It's just very selective with whom it makes friends with." Doing the install was simple > and very friendly up until I did a 'chsh' and got vi! My editor of choice > is pico, the editor that looks like pine and has instructions on the > bottom. Sure, it's simple and doesn't have all the advanced features you > might want in an editor, but for doing a 'chsh', it's sufficient! Of > course, that's just me... > Because it's there. 'tis on FreeBSD, Linux, the HP's, on DG/UX, and even on them nasty SCO boxes; Vee-eye is always there. > Before hitting reply and flaming me, check this out and have a chuckle... > http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99may/19990508.html editor of last resort :dd bs=1 Regards, --- Don Read dread@calcasieu.com EDP Manager dread@texas.net Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX -- Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message