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Re: An 'ae' testimony



On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 02:57:26PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> ae barely even WORKS!  It's crap in "vi mode", it's crap in every other
> mode, it's just crap!  =>  I'd have to say that _PICO_ is a more
> functional editor than ae, at least it works.

Isn't PICO non-free? (similar to pine). Slap me if I am wrong here.
 
> Maybe joe or something?

joe is discontinued upstream IIRC, and doesn't work quite right on the Hurd.
Obviously, it's termcap/ncurses interface is slightly broken. I have not
investigated it further yet, because ae, vi and emacs work :)

Marcus

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