-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21 May 1999 22:38:14 -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>I think ee is a good choice, I'm not sure it's the right choice, I'm >not sure there is a right choice. If we put a vi on, we get a >(probably deserved) reputation for newbie hostility. If we don't, we >alienate all the experienced people, who expect vi to be a basic tool >available everywhere. Then we should ditch the vi idea altogether. Why? Sure, *some* experienced people will expect it. Here's one experienced person who doesn't, however. What I *do* expect is an *easy* editor, not one that conforms to how I work. It is the very fact that experienced users are, well, experienced that they should be excluded from consideration. Anyone who, if they are like me, can switch from joe to vim to CUA in the span of 1 minute (done it at work more than once in the past week) can read the fscking help screen. It is the newbies who don't know RTFM yet that need to be catered to. When setting up a system we don't need something that we can code the bible in 20 different languages. All we need is this: Up/Down/Left/Right PgUp/PgDn Delete character Backspace Delete line Mark a block Cut/copy/move/paste block That is *IT*. We don't need delete word, marking/deleting a block will do that. We don't need regexps replacements because all the editing should be 1-2 line edits anyway. And we certainly don't need a modal editor so we can have 20 different insert and replace options which most newbies will not get the hang of before they reformat and install something else. If ee does this (I dunno, but my friend swears by it), then so be it, install it, move on. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN0ZFx3pf7K2LbpnFEQIUWgCfbM+mqvvhkUINHkPMgByNtgaJGgoAn07N pyURixv/JZf2c76NL9IL2Ye+ =0Z4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----