From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 12 13:16:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A029437B71B for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3A0B; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:21:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAD3CB8.152300F9@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:16:40 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: FreeBSD-newbies Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) References: <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3AAD1D20.48F149B1@acuson.com> <03c301c0ab32$2c7d5660$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AAD34E4.E4B72CC1@acuson.com> <041201c0ab36$96629280$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message