From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 24 09:45:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00650 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 09:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (dns1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.44.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00633 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 09:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon (platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.96.1]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA29755 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 17:46:32 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:46:32 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" X-Sender: stephen@platon To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 May 1996, John Fieber wrote: > cat, head, and tail. > > Gotta get those new user up to speed on pipes and redirection > right off the bat! Huh! Mere child's tools. I vote we ought to give them just a disk sector editor. After all, any self-respecting hacker ought to be able to edit files by writing the disk format directly! :-) On a slightly more serious note, I vote for the set $EDITOR facility in sysinstall, with perhaps pico as the default selection if you don't choose anything different. Regards, Stephen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Butler |stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | |Computer Science Undergraduate. | | |Royal Holloway, University of London.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------