Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 10:08:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960522100425.8545A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960522105149.1360C-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu>
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Please do this! Pico is probably Unix's easiest editor to use, and also very popular. New users would benefit _greatly_ from this. Even experienced users might benefit in the sense that programs like vipw wouldn't start up ee, which I found greatly confusing since it sort of looked like vi, but wasn't compatible with anything I knew. I mean, whose idea was ee in the first place? I don't find it noticably "easier" than vi, nor any more powerful! ---Jake On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > This is about an easy editor, changing ee for pico. > > First, I want to say that I agree, anyone who is even slightly serious > about software should never use pico. Still, watching other students in > beginning C++ and Pascal classes using pico (because they CAN) when the > teacher keeps on pushing emacs and vi makes me understand that people > want an easily understandable editor, no matter what. > > That being the case, I have b'maked pico, and given it to Jordan. This > is a chance to everyone to comment, and tell me that replacing ee with > pico is wrong. If you don't want this to happen, now's your chance ...
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