From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 22 19:04:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25973 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 19:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25963 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 19:04:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thurston.eng.umd.edu (thurston.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.206]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07054; Wed, 22 May 1996 22:04:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by thurston.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA24429; Wed, 22 May 1996 22:04:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 22:04:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@thurston.eng.umd.edu To: Jake Hamby cc: "Chris J. Layne" , "Matthew N. Dodd" , 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, 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------