Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:00:44 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ee - Imported sources Message-ID: <199508310100.DAA02282@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Aug 1995 00:28:08 PDT." <199508300728.AAA15693@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
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Jordan, Ref. Easy Editor > It's also much SMALLER than vi Our /usr/bin/vi is a 233K demand paged dynamically linked executable. There are other vi like editors around much smaller than vi I used to use elvis & stevie on minix & dos (& ported one to a few OS's) I recall .exe's of about 50 to 100K; a dos vi.exe is still 96K, runs on a DOS 8086. You don't say if EE supports vi style interface ? If it merely supports emacs functionality ... so what ? Least suprise, dictates we offer the standard Unix editor interface. > since tossing a novice into vi with no help or clue as > to what the key bindings are is both cruel and in violation of the > Hague Convention. We are a BSD OS, not a DOS Weenie OS, if the user doesnt understand VI, that's his problem not ours, clueless DOSers are of debatable benefit, `Least suprise' requires we offer a vi like interface. PS I looked to see what old sources I have here: stevie-1.15src+3.45bin.tar.gz stevie-3.10+jhs.tar.gz gnu/generic/elvis-1.7.tar.gz but ive not tried porting them to this (FreeBSD) OS (I guess I could if needed) Julian S
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