Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org> Cc: DAve Goodrich <dave@pixelhammer.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Primitive tools Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006301022250.77950-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006301018590.59344-100000@shell.selkie.org>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Chris Phillips wrote: > Primitive? I think that is perhaps the wrong choice of > words. Basic? lynx certainly is. vi basic? I think not. I use both > tools regularily. What happens when you need to look at apache's > server-status and there is no GUI available? I certainly wouldn't want to > run X on a production server just to be able to look at needed > information. In my opinion vi is the most powerful editor out > there. Emacs is a close second. Not sure what you see in joe. While I hate vi, I agree that it should be part of the system base, though I don't object to also having a more user friendly editor (ee, or jed configured properly (yes, I'm working on updating the jed port). Used to use joe, but I can't remember if it would go as far towards user friendlyness as the latest jed). At least I've stopped wishing for a unix version of DME :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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