From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 23: 1: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dell.dannyland.org (dell.dannyland.org [64.81.36.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02D837B403 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by dell.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8FB5A5BF9; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:00:43 -0700 From: dannyman To: Jason Halbert Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi Message-ID: <20010608230043.D418@dell.dannyland.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jason@jason-n3xt.org on Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:37:21AM -0500 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:37:21AM -0500, Jason Halbert wrote: > Hi All: > > Why is vi the default choice of editor for UNIX and how did it become > the default? I find it cumbersome. > > I'm just curious of it's advantages over joe or pico or any of the > others. It comes installed with the base system. I think cumbersome is the wrong adjective. Perhaps you mean "frustrating?" Anyways, I tend to figure ee might be a better choice for default editor. It is more intuitive to use than vi. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message