Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:04:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "Chris J. Layne" <coredump@nervosa.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960522220142.26002B-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960522163811.18912B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chris J. Layne wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > 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 ... > > > > > > vi. > > > > vi. > > In Chuck's defense, I would say "vi" too, but if you had a choice of an > editor IN ADDITION TO vi, which would you pick? (remember it must fit on > the boot floppy :-) I heard one vote for "joe" which is a decent editor, > but since pico is more popular, and we ARE doing this for newbie's, I > narrowly lean towards that. I would NOT choose ee, as it has no advantage > over vi to me, nor would I expect, to a new user. > > So in other words, if there is room on the boot disk for two editors, one > of which being vi, what do you vote for as the second editor? I appreciate the defense, Jake, but it's not on the mark. I hate pico, I would never use it, but neither you, I, nor Chris qualify as new users. I am talking about a new user's editor, period. Something to replace ee, NOT to replace any tool that any of us use now. I am talking about lowering the fear level for approaching FreeBSD. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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