From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 07:28:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA15789 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 07:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15732 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 07:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id JAA07186 for freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:27:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199605231427.JAA07186@plains.nodak.edu> To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think editor preference is a "religious" issue simular to the Linux/FreeBSD debate. a good percentage of the people will be unhappy with whatever choice is made. Jordan, go dictator and choose one. > Isn't there some editor out there that vaguely > resembles Microslop's 'edit'? It doesn't have to be the same, but the > idea of using the standard function keys rather than control sequences > would vastly raise the acceptance level for newbies. by default, doesn't X remap the function keys when it starts? my concern is if we get someone fimilar with a function-key based editor, and then try to explain to this new user what to do when he/she start X. I professor has remapped jove to be like his DOS editor using .joverc files and we had to remap all his X functions keys because of the above. --mark.