From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 15:11:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28735 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28683 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 22:11:31 GMT (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA20503; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:10:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:10:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: Mike , Chuck Robey , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the place of vi In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > What're you going to say to a poor non-hacker when their system fails to > mount their /usr partition, and you can just BARELY convince them that vi > is usable? "Here's a floppy with a statically compiled version of ee on it. I can understand not wanting to try to figure out vi when your system is blowing up, in fact, I keep a (static) copy of ee in /bin for that same reason." Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message