From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 9 11:14:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06075 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06065 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.1.7]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA02675 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (mail@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.9.50]) by wrzx07.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00714; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:12:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.6.12/uniwue-C-3.1a (CIP Gate)) id UAA25578; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:12:35 +0200 Received: from kreta(132.187.9.11) by cipgate via smap (V1.3) id sma025566; Mon Jun 9 20:12:35 1997 Received: by wicx11.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (5.65v3.2/uniwue-C-3.1 (C)) id AA08630; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:09:29 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow Message-Id: <9706091209.AA08630@wicx11.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:09:28 +0100 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <23977.865803952@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 8, 97 02:05:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Sounds neat. If you added an option to show its command set on-screen, > I could see this replacing the hated `ee' entirely. ;-) Why not just use pico as ee replacement? All the new users who I saw confronted with it didn't have any substantial problems using it. Although I personally detest pico, it's luser-friendly and even shows the available commands on screen.