From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 11 19:43:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA22531 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22524 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 19:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00617; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:16 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199709120211.MAA00617@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Branson Matheson cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:02:20 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:11:16 +1000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. We've had this argument already. You are welcome to your perspective, but your position lost last time, and it'd lose again. > One of the first two commands on any new boxen that I > create is: > > rm /usr/bin/ee ; ln -s /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/ee This is somehow easier than changing the EDITOR setting in root's profile? > Lets keep the unix editor the standard unix editor, vi... or at least > offer a choice ,I think there is/was somthing like that in the > /stand/sysconfig when configuring. At least for vipw. vipw, like all good tools, uses EDITOR if set or vi as a default. This isn't likely to change. All that's at issue is providing a compact DWIE editor, and vi is not this by any stretch of the imagination. mike