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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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