From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 7:37: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1F137C0A6 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gene_dinkey@hp.com) Received: from amrelay2.boi.hp.com (amrelay2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.41]) by atlrel2.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC3D4EB; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:37:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from xboibrg2.boi.hp.com (xboibrg2.boi.hp.com [15.56.8.172]) by amrelay2.boi.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with SMTP id IAA03761; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:37:01 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 15.56.8.172 by xboibrg2.boi.hp.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:37:00 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) Received: by xboibrg2.boi.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:37:00 -0600 Message-ID: From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" To: "'lex manno'" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: vi? lynx? please! Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:36:59 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wouldn't call vi primitive. In fact I would say it has to be one of the finest text editors available to anyone. Movement is lightning quick and editing can be done in a snap from multiple positions around the cursor with just a flick of a key, besides...the mouse hurts my wrist and arm something fierce. As others have stated you are free to choose what gets installed in your system, but I wouldn't touch anything like emacs if my life depended on it. Tried once, didn't like it, went back to vi. Que sera, sera. Gene >-----Original Message----- >From: lex manno [mailto:lexmanno@yahoo.com] >Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 5:08 AM >To: questions@FreeBSD.org >Subject: vi? lynx? please! > > >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.? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message