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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?

hopefully, by monday i'll have a complete guide for people like you.

hint: mv /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vivi, 
      mv /bin/ed /bin/eded, 
      cp /usr/bin/ee /usr/bin/vi, 
      cp /usr/bin/ee /bin/ed.

this will probably gag a guru, but i haven't found a need
for that goofy stuff yet, i pray things stay that way!