From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 12:46:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA12670 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 12:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utgard.bga.com (utgard.bga.com [205.238.129.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA12665 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 12:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from faulkner@localhost) by utgard.bga.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04144; Thu, 23 May 1996 14:46:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199605231946.OAA04144@utgard.bga.com> Subject: Re: editors To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank Seltzer) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:46:33 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Frank Seltzer" at May 23, 96 08:21:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner "The fates lead him who will; faulkner@asgard.bga.com Him who won't, they drag." http://asgard.bga.com/~faulkner Old Roman Saying -- Source: Joseph Campbell _____________________________________________________________________________