From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 22 12:53:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA21579 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [206.151.208.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA21574 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 12:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26682; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:53:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:53:27 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > Matt, this isn't for YOU, that'd be an insult. This's for all those guys > that post on questions "I'm just starting on unix ....". They can't > start on vi because it's too confusing for them, same with emacs. Go > find a new user, ask them how easy it is to learn vi. If you make a product that idiots can use, only idiots will use it. :) It took me 4 months to so to be able to reliably exit vi withouth having to hang up the modem. Come on, this is unix, its not supposed to be that easy. All well, I'm standing in the way of progress again. Have a good one. (If it gets any easier to use, the tech-support weenies are going to be able to figure it out and I'll really have problems. *shudder* Imagine the trouble they could get into if they had an OS that made sense most of the time. At least with Linux they just wander in circles alot. I won't be able to say "I dunno why your box is broke, I don't use Linux." *sigh*) | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|