From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 0:51:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha2.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700CB37B6E5 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lsica1@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.20.227.61]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000701075108.GXGF22932.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:51:08 -0700 Message-ID: <395DA319.BE606148@home.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:51:53 -0700 From: Lawrence Sica Organization: Interactivate, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sandy Le Cc: lex manno , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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