From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 16 23:35: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angmar.mel.vet.com.au (angmar.mel.vet.com.au [203.39.245.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 820C437B405 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:35:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nargothrond.ca.com (netscreen.mel.vet.com.au [203.39.245.2]) by angmar.mel.vet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5735514F305 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:34:53 +1000 (EST) Received: from ca.com ([155.35.178.101]) by nargothrond.ca.com with esmtp; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:33:39 +1000 Message-ID: <3CBD178B.3060300@ca.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:34:51 +1000 From: Lachlan O'Dea Organization: Computer Associates User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Darwin Power Macintosh; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020330 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Robert Subject: Re: Is it possible to rename ci to something else please !!! so it distributes as the something else :-) References: <045701c1e5d7$6651f0e0$1a6001cb@chalmers.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert wrote: > Is it only me or do other people accidentally type ci instead of vi - and > end up accidentally modifying files they don't mean to... > > It's a real pain - although of course I rename the file myself, but each > upgrade - there it is back again, and a dyslexic typist like me forever > falls over it. I can tell you right now that this will never be changed :-). You could just use the alias feature of your shell to change ci to vi. This would still be in effect after an upgrade. tcsh: alias ci vi bash and zsh: alias ci=vi (I think these are right). -- Lachlan O'Dea Computer Associates Pty Ltd Webmaster Vet - Anti-Virus Software http://www.vet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message