Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:59:18 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Will Senn <wsenn@postfuture.com> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0006301554440.12683-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <NDBBIFJODDHHIOIDPLCNKEPICMAA.wsenn@postfuture.com>
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If I might contribute (I know, it's a terrible troll, but anyway): On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Will Senn wrote: > vi? primitive? Somebody's not thinking clearly here! Let's not get bigoted here. vi _is_ primitive; however, it is also sufficient for editing text, fast and most importantly ubiquitous. There _are_ better editors, without a shadow of a doubt. However many sysadmins swear by vi with good reason. If you need a better editor, there are many available either as ports or otherwise. If it doesn't fit your needs, don't use it. It's not like it has a huge footprint. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk On modesty: whoever said "it's hard being perfect" obviously wasn't me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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