From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 14 11:58:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01605 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:58:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broken.whitefang.com (broken.whitefang.com [199.173.153.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA01576 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 11:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (shadows@localhost) by broken.whitefang.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA25768 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 22:00:09 +0300 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: broken.whitefang.com: shadows owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 22:00:08 +0300 (AST) From: The ShadowS Know Reply-To: shadows@whitefang.com To: 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? 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------