On Jun 22, Kai Henningsen wrote > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hudon) wrote on 21.06.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Newbies should *not* be dumped into vi by default. It's just too > > user-hostile. > > There's only one text mode editor that's not just as user-hostile, and > that's ae. That one seems to be completely unacceptable as a default to > most non-newbies. >
Joe is much better, IMO, and it's very newbie-friendly. > Now what? > > I think vi is indeed the right solution. People expect vi with Unix, and > if they want to configure something different, they always can. I think that our default configuration must be newbie-friendly: if a expert user will change the configuration, he will make it with no trouble. > If you want to have something as idiot-accessible as Windows (note: I'm > not talking about system configuration here - that one is a nightmare on > Windows!), then you need to do everything in the GUI. In that case, it's > completely irrelevant what is the default text mode editor. There are many newbie, that use Linux without X, for memory problems or for taste questions: they're a "market" important for Linux, IMO. ......... snip ............ Ciao Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
