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Date:      Fri, 17 May 1996 08:04:23 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /stand/ee
Message-ID:  <199605170504.IAA26098@katiska.clinet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199605170415.NAA09755@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
References:  <199605170101.EAA09562@cantina.clinet.fi> <199605170415.NAA09755@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Michael Smith writes:
 > You type <escape> and select it from the menu.  This is the first thing
 > listed in the help region at the top of the screen.

Really, take a random computer user and try it on him (the less (s)he has
used computers the better).  It is worth taking the best available
solution, particularly when a utility which will be used very often is
selected.

 > pico is not small.  There are plenty of small editors out there; 'ee' 
 > just got lucky.

Reality check, please:

hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 12: size /usr/bin/ee
text    data    bss     dec     hex
57344   4096    0       61440   f000
hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 13: which pico
/usr/local/bin/pico
hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 14: size /usr/local/bin/pico
text    data    bss     dec     hex
8192    4096    0       12288   3000
hsu@cantina.clinet.fi Fri 15: ls -l /usr/bin/ee /usr/local/bin/pico
-r-xr-xr-x   2 bin      bin         61440 May 16 10:15 /usr/bin/ee
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin         12288 Apr  4 13:21 /usr/local/bin/pico

Pico is significantly smaller!

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