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- From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.031617.8888@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
- References: <9211030038.47@rmkhome.UUCP> <1992Nov6.113324.6348@global.hacktic.nl> <sherman.721291094@foster> <BxGu2H.A62@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <gglass07.721361955@ursa>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:16:17 GMT
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- gglass07@ursa.calvin.edu (Gideon Glass) writes:
-
- >papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >>Why is it, in VI if I try to save a file without a name it doesn't prompt
- >>me for a name? Instead it kicks me back to vi. Or if I try to quit without
- >>saving. Why doesn't it ask me "Save y/n." There is no reason VI couldn't
- >>have an "expert" mode that got rid of messages for those that don't want
- >>them.
- >[Lots more deleted]
-
- >Listen, if you don't like VI, don't use it. Can't you get the point?
- >Those of us who like UNIX use it. Those of you who don't can find
- >yourselves another operating system. I'm tired of hearing your
- >marketing-inspired bullshit hype about how no one's going to use UNIX
- >after Window NT (or whatever) comes out. Plenty of people like UNIX
- >fine without your stupid hypothetical novice-friendly user interface
- >strapped on.
-
-
- WOOHH - Someone got out of wrong side of the bed this morning!!
-
- It is no news that
- novice users hate UNIX (aka vi) and think
- it is the pits.
-
- In my previous posts about novice users hating UNIX and especially
- vi, I got flamed but I also got a brilliant piece of advice - PICO.
-
- I've posted this before, but the PICO editor for UNIX
- has been written by GODS!! It is a very simple editor
- and has a zero learning curve for new users and experienced
- vi users who still hate vi.
-
- It only took me three days to get almost all the site
- users to fall in love with this editor. It also came with
- a number of makefiles for different computers so I didn't have
- library problems to get the thing to compile.
-
- FEATURES:-
- It has the menu at the bottom on the screen with all the options.
- Line wrap.
- REALLY USER FRIENDLY.
-
- Try it out it is totally brilliant!!
-
- I no longer have to feel guilty about introducing
- new users to UNIX by warning them to leave an afternoon
- or two free to learn vi.
-
- It is very easy to get elm to use it as its default editor
- and you can make nn use PICO as its default editor by putting
- the line
-
- setenv EDITOR /bin/pico (or wherever the editor is)
-
- in your .cshrc file.
-
- (I still use vi, mainly because I have had quite a few thousand
- spent on me to learn the thing at UNIX courses. Also I am quite addicted to
- vi.)
-
- HOPE this helps. Stay cool dudes, Lachlan.
- --
- Lachlan Cranswick - CSIRO _--_|\ lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
- Division of Mineral Products / \ tel +61 3 647 0367
- PO Box 124, Port Melbourne 3207 \_.--._/ fax +61 3 646 3223
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