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To: Matthias Buelow <token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users 
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 13:04:42 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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.

Because it needs to be bmake'd and otherwise prep'd for inclusion with
the FreeBSD source tree and I don't feel like doing all that work? :-)

					Jordan