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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To:        Branson Matheson <branson.matheson@ferginc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970911225443.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970911135833.433O-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com>

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Hi Branson Matheson;  On 11-Sep-97 you wrote: 

...

>  Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is
>  and always has been the standard editor for unix. I think it should
>  stay that way. One of the first two commands on any new boxen that I
>  create is:

I agree with your opinion, but sorry to disagree on vi;   It is not the
standard Unix(tm) editor.  I worked on unix for almost a decade before this
new fangled vi editor even showed up :-)  the standard Unix editor is ed.
This may be different in bsd.

>  rm /usr/bin/ee ; ln -s /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/ee

What for?  export EDITOR=vi (setenv editor vi) will do the same without
killing things.

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Sincerely Yours,                               (Sent on 11-Sep-97, 22:37:23
by XF-Mail)

Simon Shapiro                                                Atlas Telecom
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