From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 7:59:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDB037B6B4 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:59:19 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05605; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:59:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:59:18 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Will Senn Cc: questions Subject: RE: vi? lynx? please! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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