Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 19:52:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Matthias Buelow <token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970609194618.323e-100000@Journey2.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <8235.865886682@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Why not just use pico as ee replacement? All the new users who I saw > > confronted with it didn't have any substantial problems using it. > > Although I personally detest pico, it's luser-friendly and even shows > > the available commands on screen. > > Because it needs to be bmake'd and otherwise prep'd for inclusion with > the FreeBSD source tree and I don't feel like doing all that work? :-) I did that once, if you remember, Jordan, but there was some other objection to pico. Don't remember what, but if it got cleared up, I'd prepare pico once again. I still think, for newbies, it's easily the best editor out there today. > > Jordan > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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