Re: An 'ae' testimony
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:09:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:57:26 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
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> >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!
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> Well...
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> {morpheus@teleute:~} ls -l `which ae`
> - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23548 Oct 30 1998 /bin/ae
> {morpheus@teleute:~} ls -l `which joe`
> - -rwxr-xr-x 5 root root 174020 Dec 10 13:19 /usr/bin/joe
> {morpheus@teleute:~} 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)
> {morpheus@teleute:~} 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
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