From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 4:14:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE61637B55C for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcs@draenor.org) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.15 #1) id 137yk1-000O3e-00; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:13:49 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:13:49 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: lex manno Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <20000630131349.W82739@draenor.org> References: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com>; from lexmanno@yahoo.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:57AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, Sorry, but I disagree with you on this one: o vi is _far_ from primitive. It's still an amazingly fast editor with some incredible features. o You're assuming that everyone wants to use emacs and/or joe. Speaking personally, I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole. :) That's all a matter of opinion though, and everyone will have their own favourite editor. While emacs might be yours, vi is certainly mine. o As for dropping lynx, you're also assuming that _everyone_ runs X windows. Personally, I don't, and so lynx is quite useful. It's important to note that everything about BSD is customizable. If you don't like vi, then simply remove it from your system. Those of us who want to use it, will keep it. Cheers, Marc On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:57AM -0700, lex manno wrote: > hi there, > > Well, I've been using FBSD for almost a year now and I > was wondering. Isn't it about time to remove primitive > stuff like vi and lynx from the o.s.? > > I mean, when there are editors like Joe and Emacs and > browsers like Netscape, why do we need to keep all > these antiquated monsters? > > For God's sake, let us modernize! > > bye, > lex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message