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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:19:27 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Mike <mike@seidata.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the place of vi
Message-ID:  <19980414191927.51679@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414122123.12362A-100000@seidata.com>; from Mike on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:11:35PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414080743.23505A-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414122123.12362A-100000@seidata.com>

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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 01:11:35PM -0400, Mike wrote:
> I've just always firmly believed that 'not
> knowing' is a great reason to learn...  not to whine.  Especially on a
> -hackers list...  where I'd like to think the kernel gurus hang out...

Many of them don't, due to too many of these long-winded discussions.
(Please don't take this as a flame for raising the issue).

> and I'm sure they don't need to hear a discussion of why vi won't work in
> single user mode.

Absolutely.

I actually think we need a freebsd-kernel list, possibly a moderated
one.  It would be nice to have some place where the kernel hackers
would hang out (-current is presently functioning as this, but that is
IMHO wrong - it tend to overload that list a bit).

Eivind.


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