From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 21 13:29: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E1037B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03347; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 07:28:34 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from dougy.apana.org.au(203.3.126.131), claiming to be "dougy" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdUc3345; Wed Nov 22 07:28:25 2000 Message-ID: <015b01c05403$22f1c940$837e03cb@dougy> From: "Doug Young" To: "Lawrence Kreitzer" , References: Subject: Re: Need New Kernel Help Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 07:36:38 +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 > I am a newbie to Unix in general and FreeBSD in particular, but I have a lot of experience with all sorts of OS-es, dating back to the CDC-6400. vi is not so strange, believe it or not :) why anyone would prefer that "vi" monstrosity to the infinitely easier "ee" is beyond me .... only reason I can think of is that some people believe that if it isn't overly complicated its no good !!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message