Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:31:46 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970911213146.009c5680@cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <8943.874025373@time.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:02:20 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96.970911135833.433O-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com>
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At 05:49 PM 9/11/97 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is >> and always has been the standard editor for unix. I think it should > >I think you misunderstand. This doesn't replace vi and never did. >ee is a *different* editor, for a different audience, and the fact >that you symlink it to vi on your own box is completely and utterly >irrelevant to that fact. :) Perhaps more to the point, no one has actually commented on the new version of Zile. I know how resistant programmers can be to change something as sacred as an editor, but I don't think a quick evaluation/test of the new editor would kill anybody. This is the FreeBSD camp--there's always room for one more. K.S.
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