Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:28:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: lexmanno@yahoo.com (lex manno) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <200006301328.IAA32121@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <20000630114305.21415.qmail@web5403.mail.yahoo.com> from lex manno at "Jun 30, 2000 04:43:05 am"
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lex manno babbled: > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:43:05 -0700 (PDT) > Neil Blakey-Milner reffering to vi wrote: > > > Why? How is it 'primitive'? > > well: no menus, no mouse, no easy way to access all > those impossible commands. You actually have to > memorize them and that doesn't make your life esay, > now, does it? Since I memorized them many years ago, it makes my life very easy. > > If you don't want lynx, don't install it. People > > would get rather upset > > at having to install X just to look at web pages. > > That's exactly what I mean! Don't you think that not > using X Windows is kind of primitive? > > Perhaps vi and lynx isn't useless but we have to admit > it.. they're _primitive_ I have no intention of admitting any such thing. I WILL admit that your choices are different from mine. That doesn't automatically make your choices bad ones, though, just different. I'll still use what works for me. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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