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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hacktic!utopia!global!peter
- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.114921.802@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 11:49:21 GMT
- References: <RICH.92Nov4093932@rich.kastle.com> <1ddle0INNfn5@uranium.sto.pdb.sni.de> <BxKKtu.MMM@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Bxu1y7.4py@research.canon.oz.au>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
-
- >papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >>True, the problem is there are people, in this very newsgroup, who see
- >>no reason to try to make user friendly applications for unix. To them,
- >>if you can't use VI right off the bat, or enjoy learning obscure,
- >>nonsensical, illogical keystrokes, you should go back to the mac.
- >>THIS will kill Unix.
-
- >Define "user friendly". Aren't the people who like vi users too?
-
- Of course they are. But there are also easy to use editors availlable for X
- such as textedit (from the XView3 library) and aXe. The problem is that such
- an editor are not always delivered with a system and people are stuck to vi
- or emacs.
-
- Greetings,
- Peter Busser
-