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

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Eric Hattemer wrote:
> 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
>
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>   
Aloha Eric,

Long time you been away.

I use vi when I have to but always install pico on the FreeBSD boxes.

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