From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 23 05:24:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07810 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn049-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA07783 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 05:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA17541; Thu, 23 May 1996 08:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 08:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Jake Hamby cc: "Chris J. Layne" , "Matthew N. Dodd" , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD current Subject: Re: editors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 May 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chris J. Layne wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > That being the case, I have b'maked pico, and given it to Jordan. This > > > > is a chance to everyone to comment, and tell me that replacing ee with > > > > pico is wrong. If you don't want this to happen, now's your chance ... > > > > > > vi. > > > > vi. > > In Chuck's defense, I would say "vi" too, but if you had a choice of an > editor IN ADDITION TO vi, which would you pick? (remember it must fit on > the boot floppy :-) I heard one vote for "joe" which is a decent editor, > but since pico is more popular, and we ARE doing this for newbie's, I > narrowly lean towards that. I would NOT choose ee, as it has no advantage > over vi to me, nor would I expect, to a new user. > > So in other words, if there is room on the boot disk for two editors, one > of which being vi, what do you vote for as the second editor? > > ---Jake > Pico -- Frank