From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 11:39:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.perimeter.co.za (dns.perimeter.co.za [196.25.164.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3036937B419 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 11:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (ndf-dial-196-30-127-112.mweb.co.za [196.30.127.112]) by dns.perimeter.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g36JcG517868; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:38:17 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Patrick O'Reilly" Organization: Perimeter Networks CC Message-Id: <200204062138.59784@.perimeter.co.za> To: mpd , Bryan Gembusia Subject: Re: Editor Question Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 21:41:50 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <001a01c1dcbc$09030600$0c0a0a0a@bgembusia> <000601c1dcc8$e61cc6a0$0c0a0a0a@bgembusia> <20020405123845.A12750@rochester.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020405123845.A12750@rochester.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri 05 Apr 02 19:38, mpd wrote: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -0500, Bryan Gembusia wrote: > > ee, that is it. Thanks. What does ee stand for?? Is this a unix > > standard, or just a BSD one? > > It stands for 'easy editor,' but FreeBSD is the only system I've > personally seen it on. 'man ee' for more. > Personally, whenever I install FreeBSD I go to the Options page and change the editor to vi ( /usr/bin/vi ) during the install process. And that works just fine, which would confirm that vi is in the base installation. Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message