Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:12:23 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" <stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu Subject: Re: editors. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960524160707.20696A-100000@platon>
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > I appreciate the defense, Jake, but it's not on the mark. I hate pico, I > would never use it, but neither you, I, nor Chris qualify as new users. > I am talking about a new user's editor, period. Something to replace ee, > NOT to replace any tool that any of us use now. > > I am talking about lowering the fear level for approaching FreeBSD. I've used joe and pico. joe is good where people have used Wordstar before, but I think pico just pips joe to the post perhaps. To be honest, both are really easy to use for simple editing and maybe the choice ought to be made on size of binary. Regards, Stephen. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Butler |stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | |Computer Science Undergraduate. | | |Royal Holloway, University of London.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------
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