On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, mike horansky wrote: > > It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use > > vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
> It is generally agreed in the computing mainstream that that kind of > assumption willkeep unix out of the hands of the common > computer-user. Of course, some unix gurus actually want this. The first editor I learned under Unix was vi, and God I *was* a newbie. The right way to do it is teaching everyone the Mighty ed! The good thing about ed is that it works under *every* terminal. Vi works under most of them. If you want to use Emacs, you'd better find a terminal which handles Meta correctly and has Del in the canonical place (above Ret or something like that). Better yet, find a good X terminal (to get those nice menus). I just love compatibility. > Assuming that the Debian folks don't have this agenda, and assuming > that there isn't room for two editors, keeping ae on the base disks > is a good idea. Pico, minus the line-wrapping, would be even easier > to use, but I see it's about 6 times bigger. BTW why ed is bigger than ae? That's really weird. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23656 Nov 13 20:32 /bin/ae* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68300 Jan 31 01:45 /bin/ed* Vadik. -- Vadim Vygonets * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Unix admin If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.