Re: Politics and anoouncing

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, R G Mayhue wrote:

> found joe to be an easy to use editor) by typing "edit" (ie: edit ->
> pico),  like MS-DOS EDIT. Or use "editor" if the MS part bothers
> anyone. 

I vote for "edit". 

> them. When they use any of the symlinked commands, a short reminder
> could be displayed on the command line informing them of the name of
> the real editor they are about to use and also giving them a choise
> to open its documentation first. 

I don't see much point to this. Though I guess it would help if they knew
what the "real" name of their editor was. But pico tells you it's name
anyway.

> It could also explain that by later
> typing the real editors name, it will be faster then using the symlink.

Shouldn't make any visible difference.
-- 
Donovan