Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:41:02 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: lex manno <lexmanno@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <20000630104102.A26405@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <20000630114305.21415.qmail@web5403.mail.yahoo.com>; from lexmanno@yahoo.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:43:05AM -0700 References: <20000630114305.21415.qmail@web5403.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:43:05AM -0700, lex manno wrote: > Hi, > > Neil Blakey-Milner reffering to vi wrote: > > > Why? How is it 'primitive'? > > well: no menus, no mouse, no easy way to access all > those impossible commands. You actually have to > memorize them and that doesn't make your life esay, > now, does it? Once you've learned all those "impossible" commands, yes, it does make your life easy. No menus to grab, no mouse to reach for. These are *features*. > > > If you don't want lynx, don't install it. People > > would get rather upset > > at having to install X just to look at web pages. > > That's exactly what I mean! Don't you think that not > using X Windows is kind of primitive? Not primitive. Development in the command line interface continues actively. It depends on what you want to do. What does a DNS server or a mail server need X for? > Perhaps vi and lynx isn't useless but we have to admit > it.. they're _primitive_ No we don't :-). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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