Re: !ae as default text-editor on base-install

[Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:41:35PM -0700, S. Champ wrote:
> hello.
> 
> 
> i remember seeing the statement that `ae' was chosen as the default text-editor,
> for the basic debian install, because of its lightweight-ness.
> 
> 
> i'd like to suggest a switch to `zile'.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/editors/zile.html
> 
> 
> and if this won't be acceptable, i'd like to know why
> 
> ( and not rudely meaning that, just honestly. i'm curious about how it might
> compare. `zile' seems lightweight enough, and is nicely close to the emacsen
> interface, and seems better than ae.  i need to hear the other side to it,
> though; the issues i'm not yet aware of about it. )
> 
> 
> thank you.
> 
> 
>  -- s.c.
> 

I wasn't there when they decided, but I think ae has a help line(s)
along the top.  This allows anyone to be able to use ae without
having had experience with it.  It also sidesteps a vi/emacs war as
AFAIK the ae keybindings are unique to ae.

I don't know anything about zile but those are some ideas.

-- 
Pat Mahoney  <pat7@gmx.net>


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