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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:16:40 -0800
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi)
Message-ID:  <3AAD3CB8.152300F9@acuson.com>
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Doug Young wrote:
> 
> 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.

Of course, use what you want, but every Unix system will have vi, but
might not have ee or pico. It might not be the easiest, but vi is
something that newbies should learn. You don't have to learn all the vi
commands, but only a few of them can take you a long ways.

David

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