Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:09:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010708170947.G289@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder.. The real question is whether it is a faithful > enough drop-in replacement for nvi. I'll alias it on some of my machines > and see if it bites me or not. Here's one thing that annoys me: $ crontab -e <edit ...> crontab: temp file must be edited in place the solut^W kludge I use (EDITOR=nvi crontab -e) is easier than finding out how to configure Vim to avoid this, but I'm sure there's a way. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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