From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 11 18:42:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17682 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17677 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:42:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlanta (mfd-dial1-14.cybercom.net [209.21.137.14]) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA22424 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:41:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970911213146.009c5680@cybercom.net> X-Sender: ksmm@cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:31:46 -0400 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release In-Reply-To: <8943.874025373@time.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.