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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:29:39 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release
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On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:34:40AM +0100, Aled Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, 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. :)
>
> I wish EE's default was Emacs keybindings though - rather than "yet
> another" set of made-up keystrokes [aside: OK, flame me, they're standard
> from some popular package with which I am not familiar, right?]
>
> Many other apps use Emacs keybindings (X programs for example) so it is
> useful for newbies to at least get used to the "standard".

Agreed.  Note that this list includes such popular programs as
Netscrape.

> In the style of this thread: "the first thing I do after installing
> FreeBSD for a newbie is
> 	echo 'emacs noexpand nomargins' >>/usr/share/misc/init.ee
> "

Hmm.

Greg