[SunRescue] Pico Forever!!! Nah.. ed ed ed!

[Les]

RIGHT ON ye wise & EXPERIENCED Admin ! ! ! !
Les
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From: "BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak"
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Pico Forever!!! Nah.. ed ed ed!


> > #!/bin/satire
>
> #!/bin/great-and-ancient-satire
>
> > Pico Forever Brothers... join with me in the clan of Pico, we shall wage
> > a pico jihad against the infidels of the great satan emacs, and the
lesser
> > satan vi.
>
> Nay, forsooth and forswear, and forthewith, it be ed...ed...ed... forever!
> Thinke ye ed, for all ye UNIXe purposes and needes, henceforthe.
>
> Actually, the righte vi is goodly fair, too, but be not for the faint
> of heart.  Yon behemoth, emacs, doth beget curses and fits and starts
> that unduley overwhelmeth ye 2mb ram PDP and such machines of the
> lesser classes.
>
> A goodly and simple vi doth fitteth within the confines of even
> the leaste Dossish boot floppeye, with the full nroffe in likewise
> form.  Together, with ethereal drivers and effteepee, they maketh
> emergenceye recoverie possible, even from yon PeeCee.
>
> > I disdain such baroqe  operating system replacements as emacs (no joke,
> > RMS thinks that emacs could easily be turned into a complete OS, and in
> > fact attempted to do so, mostly unsucsessfully for 15 years), and vi
isnt
> > an editor, it's a medieval torture device ported to UNIX.
>
> Vi be not of tortuous deeds, but only of some fair scholarly learning,
> to be of general use.  If, upon teste of touchtypistry, it be noted,
> with some fair scrutiny, and care, one may findeth, thusly, that it
> be known that fair vi be only of one-fisted qualitie.  That harsh and
> great behemoth, emacs, tendeth to the heathenous practice of twofistery
> upon the keyboarde.  Such practice be of greate scorn and distaste, to
> be remindeth of days of yore, whence wordstarishness practices were,
> at those tymes, in vogue.  Such twofistery in control of this, and
> control of that, be utter impractical, and weareth greatly upon the
> fingeres of a touchtypist at speed.  It only truely befitteth the
> needs of a fingerepokering wildeman upon the keyboarde.
>
> > Actually that's not fair, if you are a coding then vi and emacs are both
> > great tools. The ability to properly view literals of special
characters,
> > and the very powerful text and file handling tools built in to vi are
great,
> > and emacs modes can do almost anything you can think of.
> >
> > But for simple text editing like email or readme files, there is no need
> > to load up something the size of emacs, and vi is unnecisarily
complicated
> > for beginners to use.
>
> Nay, nay,.... vi be of simple and goodly virtue, whence comparethed withe
> that behemoth, emacs.  Yet, in simplest of virtue, ed be of purest and
> of greate utilitarian sorte.  Considereth, bye example, forthewithe,
> in particular case, the occurance of a boote of ye UNIXe, sans all
> but roote.  Where findest ye emacs, thence?  It be gone, like the
> waters of tyme.  Fair vi be some problematik, if she be of usr mount,
> but be still goodly if mounted in roote, in suitable statick bin.
> Pico be usable in said roote environ, if likewise, statick of form
> in bin.  Yet, fewe machines be made what haveth pico or vi in roote.
> In such lattere case, ed, be of fittest virture.
> >
> > I have to think that more people have been scared away from unix by vi
than
> > by any other aspect of UNIX operation. How many of us managed to
succesfully
> > edit a file, save, and exit vi on the first try without resorting to
> > suspending or killing it?
>
> Yea, vi be of scholarly teste, and requireth some skills of mastery.
> Yet, she be virtuous in that she be, of all screenly editores, available
> upon moste UNIXe machines.  Pico, of such merit as it may be, be foundeth
> scarcely in said machines, and cannote be dependeth upone in greate neede.
>
> > How many of us have accidentally entered a large number before a
particularly
> > nasty command because we forgot what mode we were in, and accidentally
munged
> > a document (yes I know there's an undo, but the first time I did it, I
didn't)
>
> The security of minde, in case of doubte be a single touche upon the ESC
keye.
> That cleareth your minde, and insureth vi be in requisite non-inclusive
mode.
>
> > Pico is relativley small, simple, and users can generally figure it out
> > without extensive tech support. I deal with a lot of UNIX beginners when
> > I teach security classes, and years of experience have taught me that
> > subjecting these folks to vi or emacs is just not worth the headache for
> > either of us.
>
> Some probleme, be, in the nature of the GUI beaste, furthered upon the
> worlde, of late.  It causeth some heathenous degredation of the proper
> mindeset of those novices aspiring to greater UNIXe wisdome.
>
> One findeth, with tyme, that vi be comfy like the peasant's olde shoe,
> and serveth one's needes well.
>
> One may neede maketh aspiring novices think like a vi user rather than
> a GUI user, and that helpeth immensely.  It be, of the same sorte of
> mindeset, as the need to think like a troffer whence ye maketh novices
> learne of the power of troff at making small such typesetting as may
> be needed, in UNIXe.
>
> The axiom of olde tymes, readeth, ``Firste learneth ye ed, second
> learneth ye vi, then lastly learneth ye such editores as may suit
> other needes upon your UNIXe machine.''  Failure to so doeth, may
> leadeth one down the paths of unrecoverable machines, and great
> frustrations upon the minde.
>
> IF ye be of only minor user inclination, perhaps pico may be of
> some merit.  But, if ye be a serious UNIXe user, the olde axiom,
> still holdthe true.
>
> It still be virtuous, even todaye.
>
> /*EOF
> /*EOF
>
> Whew,... time for some coffee......(:+}}..., inet flak jacket, etc.....
>
> Bob
>
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