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Date:      Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:14:30 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vi? lynx? please!
Message-ID:  <20000630131430.A80362@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com>; from lexmanno@yahoo.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:57AM -0700
References:  <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri 2000-06-30 (04:07), lex manno wrote:
> 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.? 

Why?  How is it 'primitive'?

> 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!

Joe is better than vi?  What _have_ you been smoking?  (:

If you don't want lynx, don't install it.  People would get rather upset
at having to install X just to look at web pages.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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