From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 12 12:53:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC1B37B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA80536; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:53:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdD80531; Tue Mar 13 06:53:11 2001 Message-ID: <041201c0ab36$96629280$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "David Johnson" Cc: "FreeBSD-newbies" References: <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3AAD1D20.48F149B1@acuson.com> <03c301c0ab32$2c7d5660$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AAD34E4.E4B72CC1@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:54:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Actually I still have nightmares thinking about trying to get anything to work in linux. I'm messing around with OpenBSD at present (which doesn't have "ee") so there doesn't appear to be any immediate alternative to VI .... mind you pico is high on the list of apps to install. > This was 1981-82. The IBM PC was still relatively new, but there were > certainly more than five units :-) For a Unix user at that time, vi > *was* the friendliest editor. > > Maybe you always remember your first love fondly, but even today I still > use vi for editing configuration files, even if I happen to already have > XEmacs up and running... > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message