From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 02:34:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA21054 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 02:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uk.ns.eu.org ([194.117.157.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA21049 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 02:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from aledm@localhost) by uk.ns.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA12936; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:34:40 +0100 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:34:40 +0100 (BST) From: Aled Morris X-Sender: aledm@uk.ns.eu.org To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release In-Reply-To: <8943.874025373@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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". 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 " Aled -- tel +44 973 207987 O- aledm@routers.co.uk