[LUAU] Re: [buug] nano help!!!!

[Eric Hattemer]

Vince Hoang wrote:
> The solution is the same in both: fix the PATH. For tcsh, the OP will want
> to add something like the following to your .tcshrc file:
>
> set PATH = ($PATH /usr/local/bin)
>
> Using a symlink will work too, but using a custom PATH will continue to work
> for other local package installations.
>
>   
In my experience with tcsh, $PATH is set by setenv, and is : separated,
whereas $path is handled by set, and is space separated.  So you'd want
setenv PATH $PATH:/usr/local/bin
or
set path=($path /usr/local/bin)

My point that a lot of people missed was someone wrote in saying
basically "I would like to use nano.  I went out of my way to install
it, because I am familiar with it and enjoy it".  Sean wrote back saying
basically, "I recognize that you've probably seen vi and hate it enough
to drive you to go out of your way to install nano, but you're wrong,
and you need to use vi".  Do you ever wonder why vi was written in 1976,
but in 1984, 1999, and 2000 respectively, people had the audacity to
publicly release emacs, nano, and gedit, when vi is clearly better?

The answer is that not everybody likes vi.  Some people will never like
vi.  Some people have used it extensively, either when it was necessary,
or to give it a chance, are familiar with it, proficient, and still hate
it.  If you grabbed 100 people off the street, gave them a copy of nano
and a copy of vi, and told them "go", I think you'd see my point.

The point is not which editor is the best.  The point is that if someone
says "I'm having trouble with A", the answer of "A sucks, use B" is
usually inappropriate.

I have yet to find this hypothetical system that has vi, but doesn't
have emacs, noxemacs, nano, pico, nedit, gedit, kwrite, jed, or joe; the
ability to install one of these easier to use editors, or a file
transfer utility that would allow you to do your editing remotely. 
Maybe I'm fortunate that I work for a company whose servers are all from
the last 2 decades.

-Eric Hattemer