Re: Debian-Policy Manual
On Jun 22, Kai Henningsen wrote
> chudon@ee.mcgill.ca (Christian Hudon) wrote on 21.06.97 in <[🔎] 19970621145519.21205@pianocktail>:
>
> > Newbies should *not* be dumped into vi by default. It's just too
> > user-hostile.
>
> There's only one text mode editor that's not just as user-hostile, and
> that's ae. That one seems to be completely unacceptable as a default to
> most non-newbies.
>
Joe is much better, IMO, and it's very newbie-friendly.
> Now what?
>
> I think vi is indeed the right solution. People expect vi with Unix, and
> if they want to configure something different, they always can.
I think that our default configuration must be newbie-friendly: if a expert
user will change the configuration, he will make it with no trouble.
> If you want to have something as idiot-accessible as Windows (note: I'm
> not talking about system configuration here - that one is a nightmare on
> Windows!), then you need to do everything in the GUI. In that case, it's
> completely irrelevant what is the default text mode editor.
There are many newbie, that use Linux without X, for memory problems or for
taste questions: they're a "market" important for Linux, IMO.
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Ciao
Francesco Tapparo
cesco@goldnet.it
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