Re: bi (Please stop it)

1997-04-17 Thread Vadim Vygonets
> The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone > expect to find on a system's boot/rescue disk? That someone > presumably being a person with enough unix experience to recover > from the usual problems that can make your machine fail to boot. > The lastthing you need at that poi

Re: bi (Please stop it)

1997-04-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pete Templin wrote: > I agree with Joey's original message: let's let the editor debate rest a > bit, folks, or give it focus and a new thread name. i disagree. I see two valuable results from the thread: 1. people get to show off neat tricks that they've learnt/figured o

Re: bi (Please stop it)

1997-04-17 Thread Pete Templin
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote: > The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someone > expect to find on a system's boot/rescue disk? That someone > presumably being a person with enough unix experience to recover > from the usual problems that can make your machine fail

Re: bi (Please stop it)

1997-04-16 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one > is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has > to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can > use it for his purposes. The issue relevant to this group is: what editor should someo

Re: bi (Please stop it)

1997-04-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Folks, what does it matter if one editor is faster than another? Or if one is more powerful than any other? Nothing! The particular user has to be familiar with at least one editor in that way that _he_ can use it for his purposes. It doesn't make any sense discussing wether one particular ed