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- From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (very long)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:43:37 GMT
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- papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- ...
- >But many people don't ever want to learn it,
- >any more then they want to understand the internal combustion engine. They
- >just want to flip a switch on their computer and have it boot to a nice
- >editor, without them having to go through contortions:
-
- Then buy a Mac. Why bother with UNIX.
- If all you want is a nice editor/spreadsheet, why not buy a Mac.
- It's a nice simple machine.
-
- ...
- >Why not include it right from the box in every unix package, and make it
- >the standard editor?
-
- What standard editor ? Like somebody (Ade ?) pointed out editor is a like a
- religion. Should we install "joe" (a nice editor too), pico, cr, fpted,
- emacs, textedit, xedit, point,... The list goes on and on.
-
- >>There's always ed, and ex. Or cat, the one true editor.
- >>
- >All of those are WORSE then vi. How do you use cat as an editor?
-
- It's a joke man, it's a joke. (Although I've used cat to create a file too,
- just like using COPY CON)
-
-
- -- budi
- --
- Budi Rahardjo <Budi_Rahardjo@UManitoba.Ca>
- Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
-