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Re: An 'ae' testimony



On Fri, 21 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I HATE wordstar key binds, so does everybody else. Try fte or an editor like
> > it for the boot disks.
> 
> I don't have wordstar keybindings.  In fact joe comes with half a dozen
> different sets of keybindings.  So we pick one or write our own custom
> Debian bindings.  Not a problem.
> 
> 
> > I am a vi and emacs man myself, but.
> 
> vi - hard to use, but small.
> emacs - hard to use and huge.
> 
> If you put one on the disk, the people who use the other will complain. 
> And neither are very friendly to new users.  ae doesn't work like you'd
> expect it to even by reading the help at the top of the screen, and I've
> had ae many times get confused and treat its command keys as normal
> characters.

I wonder, did you read my e-mail, try the second sentance. I suggested fte go
on the boot disk, not vi or emacs. The problem is that fte is a bit big, and
works better with a functioning gpm


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I consume, therefore I am

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