Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:29:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Aled Morris <aledm@routers.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release Message-ID: <19970912192939.23558@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970912090133.12835B-100000@uk.ns.eu.org>; from Aled Morris on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:34:40AM %2B0100 References: <8943.874025373@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.970912090133.12835B-100000@uk.ns.eu.org>
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On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:34:40AM +0100, Aled Morris wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >>> Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is >>> and always has been the standard editor for unix. I think it should >> >> I think you misunderstand. This doesn't replace vi and never did. >> ee is a *different* editor, for a different audience, and the fact >> that you symlink it to vi on your own box is completely and utterly >> irrelevant to that fact. :) > > I wish EE's default was Emacs keybindings though - rather than "yet > another" set of made-up keystrokes [aside: OK, flame me, they're standard > from some popular package with which I am not familiar, right?] > > Many other apps use Emacs keybindings (X programs for example) so it is > useful for newbies to at least get used to the "standard". Agreed. Note that this list includes such popular programs as Netscrape. > 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 > " Hmm. Greg
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