From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 11:39:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00539 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (h-sauron.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.76]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00532 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00434; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:39:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 14:39:24 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Henrik Johansson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easy editors In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19960914185310.290f2636@student.udd.htu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? Take a look at pico. You'll have to install the Pine email reader as it is part of that package. Jack -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------