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- From: papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (very long)
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov13.033923.872@wixer.cactus.org> <Bxw4B8.HK1@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <frain.722069508@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:04:30 GMT
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- >Friendliness and easiness to use varies from user to user. So use the
- >editor you find friendly, and let others use the editor they find
- >friendly, and quit yer bitchin'.
-
- The point is, until I learned to FTP, make and run, I didn't have any
- choice OTHER then vi or emacs. And I'm lucky I even know about emacs.
- As a new user, the computer SHOULD have defaulted to an easier text
- editor.
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- >BTW, I use GNU Emacs (on my UNIX box), which beats the snot out
- >anything that runs on a DOS thing, as well as vi.
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- I'm fairly certain there is emacs for dos, and I KNOW there is emacs
- for OS/2.
- >
- >Any program that might run on a variety of terminals and relies on the
- >existence of function keys is inherently crippled.
-
- This argument is illogical! Right now we have no standard help key. I
- propose a key that exists on 97% of computer/terminal keyboards. You
- complain about the other 3%. Surely adding support for F keys doesn't
- have to remove support from computers that don't have fkeys, does it?
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- >F1 is not an intuitive label, I don't see the need for it AT ALL in
- >the world of "user friendliness". Certainly a key labelled "help"
- >makes much more sense (though not in the context of UNIX).
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- Unfortunately few keyboards have such a key. If it becomes enough
- of a standard, though, some keyboards might have an F1/help key.
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