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From: martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,alt.sources.wanted,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Wanted: Simple text editor on Unix for non-unix types.
Keywords: editor, novice-users, wanted
Message-ID: <453@adpplz.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 00:45:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.032646.13509@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1991Jan31.221010.1199@research.canon.oz.au> <1991Feb4.053951.7722@szebra.uucp>
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In <1991Feb4.053951.7722@szebra.uucp> tin@szebra.uucp (Tin Le) writes:

>In article <1991Jan31.221010.1199@research.canon.oz.au> andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
>>
>>You should see the user guides that come with desktop SparcStation's
>>these days (at least IPC's and SLC's). In some sections they explain
>>in full detail how to copy a file and then tell the user to run vi
>>to edit it! They're assuming the poor person has no knowledge of cp
>>but dump them into vi with no mercy (to make it worse this is in
>>the section on re-configuring the kernel!).

>   Ahem!  What are "they" doing re-configuring the kernel when they
>   don't know what the hell they are doing?  

Flame on: (I've seen this done before, but this is my first try, so be nice)
You arogant bastard! Hacker lowlife scum! Ethnocentric, egocentric, 
POOP! What in the HELL does knowledge of (for G-Ds sake) vi, have to
do with re-configuring the kernel? I've suffered with this D**MNED EXCUSE
for an editor since they put me on this system, and it STINKS!
I've done kernel programming, and am quite capable of understanding the
purposes and effects of most of the parameters, and I see no relation
WHATSOEVER to what editor I happen to be using. You toad.
Flame off.

Martin (real computers only have one address space) Golding