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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:35:47 +0200
From:      Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no>
To:        "Robert" <robert@chalmers.com.au>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Is it possible to rename ci to something else please !!! so it distributes as the something else :-)
Message-ID:  <15549.6083.659669.52093@raw.grenland.fast.no>
In-Reply-To: <045701c1e5d7$6651f0e0$1a6001cb@chalmers.com.au>
References:  <045701c1e5d7$6651f0e0$1a6001cb@chalmers.com.au>

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Robert writes:
 > 
 > 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.

        How about putting an alias for "ci" -> "vi" in your shell
startup file? There's a long tradition for this - I remember seeing
something like 

        alias mroe="more"

in default startup files ages ago :-)

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