Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:02:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Cc: aledm@routers.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release Message-ID: <199709121602.JAA13216@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199709121456.KAA17804@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from "Jamie Bowden" at Sep 12, 97 11:04:26 am
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Jamie Bowden wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Aled Morris wrote: > > > In the style of this thread: "the first thing I do after installing > > FreeBSD for a newbie is > > echo 'emacs noexpand nomargins' >>/usr/share/misc/init.ee > > Does anyone here actually get the point that a newbie can't use emacs > anymore than they can use vi? I hate ee as much as the rest of you, but > it's small, and it tells the newbie which keys do what, which vi and emacs > don't do. yes, we all get the point. that's why ee as installed as the default editor. it has a help menu across the top of the screen. but why make them learn ee key-bindings, and then when they move on to a better editor force them to learn a new set of key-bindings? that's just torturing the poor unsuspecting newbie. vi key-bindings are not an option--a modal editor will confuse the daylights out of them. so lets make emacs key-bindings the system default for ee. jmb
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