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Date:      Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:51:53 -0700
From:      Lawrence Sica <lsica1@home.com>
To:        Sandy Le <sandy@adept.org>
Cc:        lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vi? lynx? please!
Message-ID:  <395DA319.BE606148@home.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007010038480.12568-100000@snafu.adept.org>

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Sandy Le wrote:

> 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.
>

i agree here, vi is not primitive.  IT is fast and present on pretty much
any unix system, it's good to know.

>
> 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.
>

heh EmacsOS..dont forget the shell emacsh.  Gui != modern, understand that.

--LArry



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