From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 15 20:05:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA17006 for current-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 20:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17000 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 20:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA06998; Wed, 15 May 1996 20:02:22 -0700 (PDT) To: Michael Smith cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /stand/ee In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 12:32:42 +0930." <199605160302.MAA02161@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 20:02:22 -0700 Message-ID: <6996.832215742@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > And, FWIW, I don't even like `ee' all that much - it's NOT the most > > intuitive of editors, it was simply both small and available. People > > keep suggesting `pico' to me, and it's what BSD/OS uses (so one could > > almost sort of claim an attempt at compatibility), but I've never seen > > it broken out of pine so I don't know how big it itself is. > > cain:~>ls -l `which pico` > -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 110592 May 19 1995 /usr/local/bin/pico OK, that tells me a little something.. :-) I was actually referring to "big" as in code size in this context, e.g. how much resistance would I have to bringing it in. At one .c and one .1 file (and the NLS stuff), I felt pretty safe with ee. :-) Jordan