Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 22:00:08 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know <shadows@whitefang.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy editors Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960914215735.24754a-100000@broken.whitefang.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19960914185310.290f2636@student.udd.htu.se>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 1996, Henrik Johansson wrote:
> I am used to DOS, and I would like to know if there are any EASY
> editors available for Freebsd? The DOS Edit program is so much easier
> to use than vi and emacs, which makes me wonder if the goal of Unix
> programmers has been to make things as insane and user-unfriendly as
> possible? What other reasons could there be?
A very simple one. See with emacs and vi you can extend your editor to do
things that DOS edit would only dream off. Another thing I'd say alot of
the users of Unix are programmers themselves and use it for development.
Not all but alot. So Emacs and vi to them is more understandable from a
programmers point of view. There are easy editors as you call them. Like
XEdit pico and I'm sure a bunch of others.
Word to the wise: If it takes longer to learn it, its usualy much more
rewarding. DOS edit might of been easy, but I'd rather spend a few years
discovering the beauty of emacs over time.
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