-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On Jun 17, Scott Ellis wrote > > I believe that the plan is to have them managed by update-alternatives, > > and therefore be symlinks. Less will probably have a higher priority than > > more, although I don't know who gets to win the war over which editor is > > best, although I suspect a vi varient on the grounds that that is what ^^^^^^^ > > happens on most unices. > > <sigh> Here we go again. > > Newbies should *not* be dumped into vi by default. It's just too > user-hostile.
I'm not advocating any particular editor here. I personally use joe for brief editing jobs and emacs for the big stuff, but I can understand the expectations of someone familiar with unix typing vipw or such. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Scott K. Ellis | Argue for your limitations and | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sure enough, they're yours. | | | -- Illusions | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6wy2KCk2fENdzpVAQEZhgP/e2wVV5B+XL7N+nmI5k6GcFdDr1BApUnR 3JOtnd7uN+A5HLG1ucX/yPFmhAOU+HqlCvU1wMrngCVN33WXrqPEKfjRqwMuvEg9 dt9IlAuMIgSUkEC4PAqiFdq/rdxkrJJ62gyM7lYuJ/yrCgwJEYJIj1JY5Ti5cfNc hQ1KrIE1QXs= =gfyf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .