Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 08:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer <frankd@yoda.fdt.net> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "Chris J. Layne" <coredump@nervosa.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960523082119.17252A-100000@Kryten.nina.com> 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? > > ---Jake > Pico -- Frank
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