Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:46:33 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com> To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank Seltzer) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199605231946.OAA04144@utgard.bga.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960523082119.17252A-100000@Kryten.nina.com> from "Frank Seltzer" at May 23, 96 08:21:41 am
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According to Frank Seltzer:
> On Wed, 22 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
joe, for 200k says it gives you joe, pico+extensions, uemacs+extensions,
and wordstar+extensions. You could truly give them a choice. As long
as vi is one of them, I am happy.
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faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag."
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