From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 24 08:10:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA16108 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (dns1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.44.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA16092 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 08:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon (platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.96.1]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA21437 ; Fri, 24 May 1996 16:12:24 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:12:23 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" X-Sender: stephen@platon To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu Subject: Re: editors. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------