From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 4:14:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D7237B55C for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 137ykg-000Kug-00; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:14:30 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:14:30 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: lex manno Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <20000630131430.A80362@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com>; from lexmanno@yahoo.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:07:57AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message