From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 19:18: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A035637B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F382043E5E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 19:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id EB0D64FC8B; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:18:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C9D4A0E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:18:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 22:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? In-Reply-To: <200208070150.g771nwL39231@tierzero.apana.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Brian Astill wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:47, John Bleichert wrote: > > Nobody will ever convince me there's a better wm-agnostic editor than > > nedit for a new user. > > I have heard good reports about nedit from people using many platforms. > (memo to self: MUST try nedit) > > > Also, does anybody really want the FreeBSD installer changed? Maybe the > > addition of an 'instant-workstation' install would be ok, but in my IMHO > > /stand/sysinstall is the best installer out there. > > No. you miss the point here. Instant Workstation is an option in > /stand/sysinstall. What we are arguing about is the default editor in that > install. At the moment it is EDITOR=vi. I think something simpler is called > for. Ah. nedit is an X editor so it might be inappropriate for $EDITOR. I dunno what would be best for a terminal editor. I love vi, but it *is* rather arcane hehe... maybe pico? At least with pico the commands are on the bottom of the window by default. License may be an issue. $0.02 JB /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message