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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For children with short attention spans: boomerangs that don't come back.
