From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 31 3:11:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD9B37B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p63.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.63]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA233664 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:08:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00796 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:52:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:52:30 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > This could be a dificult list to construct. There will be several > opinions on what is best to do. Give newbies a REAL TE like VI or Emacs > (abid not easy to learn, but very effective) Or do we give them "training > wheels" like PICO or JED to start with and hope they outgrow it... Depends on what you want. Me, I just needed something simple to make ASCII. ee was ok. I once installed some kind of emacs, it was 60 MB or so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message