On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:09:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:57:26 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > >Maybe joe or something? The standard joe package is way too big and > >someone would almost certainly have to come up with a joe-tiny package or > >something, but it'd at least work---compared to ae which does not! > > Well... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ls -l `which ae` > - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23548 Oct 30 1998 /bin/ae > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ls -l `which joe` > - -rwxr-xr-x 5 root root 174020 Dec 10 13:19 /usr/bin/joe > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ldd `which joe` > libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4000e000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4004e000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ldd `which ae` > libslang.so.1 => /lib/libslang.so.1 (0x4000e000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40055000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400fa000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > > ...joe is bigger than ae, but ae uses slang (does something else use > slang?) so the sizes might offset each other in that regard. All joe needs > to be quite functional (which is why I like it so) is just the executable, > the libraries, and a joerc. > > Joe might also be a good option because of its wordstar-esque keys. DOS > Edit has some convergence with joe on thse key bindings. IE, CNTL-Y is > delete line in both, etc. It isn't perfect, but at least joe does tell > people that ^KH is help. Hell, we can enable the following line in the rc > file and they'll get help all the time.
huh ? after the emacs vs. vi flamewar, you want to start a unix still editor (vi or emacs) vs. microsoft still key binding thread ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
