Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:46:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net> To: Henrik Johansson <f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy editors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960914133317.25338A-100000@Kryten.nina.org> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19960914185310.290f2636@student.udd.htu.se>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Henrik Johansson wrote: > > I am used to DOS, and I would like to know if there are any EASY > editors available for Freebsd? The DOS Edit program is so much easier > to use than vi and emacs, which makes me wonder if the goal of Unix > programmers has been to make things as insane and user-unfriendly as > possible? What other reasons could there be? > > Power, speed, relatively small size, portable, adaptable to other tasks, usable in shell scripts and command lines or as building blocks to construct new and complex commands... shall I go on? :-) BTW, you might want to look at pico. It comes in the distibution with pine, the email client. Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House - anonymous
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