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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release
To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199709121456.KAA17804@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from "Jamie Bowden" at Sep 12, 97 11:04:26 am
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Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Aled Morris wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Does anyone here actually get the point that a newbie can't use emacs
> anymore than they can use vi?  I hate ee as much as the rest of you, but
> it's small, and it tells the newbie which keys do what, which vi and emacs
> don't do.

	yes, we all get the point.  that's why ee as installed as the
	default editor.  it has a help menu across the top of the screen.

	but why make them learn ee key-bindings, and then when they
	move on to a better editor force them to learn a new set of
	key-bindings?  that's just torturing the poor unsuspecting
	newbie.  vi key-bindings are not an option--a modal editor
	will confuse the daylights out of them.  so lets make
	emacs key-bindings the system default for ee.
jmb