From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 10:45:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA27411 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yoda.fdt.net (root@yoda.fdt.net [205.229.48.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27405 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.org (port-34.ts1.gnv.fdt.net [205.229.51.34]) by yoda.fdt.net (8.6.13/8.6.13-fdt) with SMTP id NAA29175; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:45:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 13:46:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.org 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? > > Power, speed, relatively small size, portable, adaptable to other tasks, usable in shell scripts and command lines or as building blocks to construct new and complex commands... shall I go on? :-) BTW, you might want to look at pico. It comes in the distibution with pine, the email client. Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House - anonymous