From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 9 16:54:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA22339 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22331 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 16:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/) with SMTP id TAA06878; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:52:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA06106; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:52:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:52:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Matthias Buelow , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users In-Reply-To: <8235.865886682@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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? :-) I did that once, if you remember, Jordan, but there was some other objection to pico. Don't remember what, but if it got cleared up, I'd prepare pico once again. I still think, for newbies, it's easily the best editor out there today. > > Jordan > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------