Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:51:12 -0700 (MST) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970218104850.15220C-100000@cold.org> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970217232234.peter@grendel.>
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Peter Korsten wrote: > Brandon Gillespie shared with us: > > > > Who's bright idea was it to change the default editor for root in 2.2 to > > 'ee'? vi is standard on every unix system i've come across, if I want to > > use a different editor I set the EDITOR environment variable myself. Why > > was this change made to /root/.cshrc? > > Not everyone is familiar with vi, you know. ':wq' or 'ZZ' to save > a file, switching between edit mode and visual mode which is not > visible... If you want FreeBSD to be installable by other people > that Your Average Wizard, don't choose vi. > > So therefore, 'ee' was chosen, because that editor keeps a handy > menu with often used keystrokes. It isn't very big either, which > was another consideration. > > And what the heck, it's easily reconfigured anyway. Yeah, so leave it with the _STANDARD_ 'vi' and change the sysinstall post configuration to 'setup root environment' rather than just set root's password, and allow the editor to be selected there. This change makes 1% of the people happy and just irritated 80%+ of the other admins. -Brandon Gillespie
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