Re: An 'ae' testimony
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On 21 May 1999 22:38:14 -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>I think ee is a good choice, I'm not sure it's the right choice, I'm
>not sure there is a right choice. If we put a vi on, we get a
>(probably deserved) reputation for newbie hostility. If we don't, we
>alienate all the experienced people, who expect vi to be a basic tool
>available everywhere.
Then we should ditch the vi idea altogether. Why? Sure, *some*
experienced people will expect it. Here's one experienced person who
doesn't, however. What I *do* expect is an *easy* editor, not one that
conforms to how I work.
It is the very fact that experienced users are, well, experienced that
they should be excluded from consideration. Anyone who, if they are like me,
can switch from joe to vim to CUA in the span of 1 minute (done it at work
more than once in the past week) can read the fscking help screen. It is the
newbies who don't know RTFM yet that need to be catered to.
When setting up a system we don't need something that we can code the
bible in 20 different languages. All we need is this:
Up/Down/Left/Right
PgUp/PgDn
Delete character
Backspace
Delete line
Mark a block
Cut/copy/move/paste block
That is *IT*. We don't need delete word, marking/deleting a block will
do that. We don't need regexps replacements because all the editing should
be 1-2 line edits anyway. And we certainly don't need a modal editor so we
can have 20 different insert and replace options which most newbies will not
get the hang of before they reformat and install something else.
If ee does this (I dunno, but my friend swears by it), then so be it,
install it, move on.
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