From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 0:46:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snafu.adept.org (adsl-63-201-63-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.63.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56F6737B93B for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sandy@adept.org) Received: by snafu.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 38DE69EE01; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snafu.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8459B001; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Sandy Le To: lex manno Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! In-Reply-To: <20000630110757.17110.qmail@web5404.mail.yahoo.com> 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 On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, lex manno wrote: > 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.? Go buy a copy of 'Learning the vi Editor' by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Read it. Then refrain from commenting on things you're uninformed about in the future. Go inspect the ports collection, notice 'lynx' is not part of 'the o.s.', then refrain from commenting on things you're uninformed about in the future. > I mean, when there are editors like Joe and Emacs and > browsers like Netscape, why do we need to keep all > these antiquated monsters? Everyone doesn't want their editor to be EmacsOS, everyone doesn't use X. Go confirm this, and refrain from commenting on things you're uninformed about in the future. > For God's sake, let us modernize! For God's sake, let's comment on things we're informed about. Oh, FWIW, comment on things you know about... That way, you won't look like an idiot in the future. Thanks, ~Mike (Sandy's SO) PS Is this a troll? Surely it is... or, maybe April 1st already? ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message