Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:22:34 +0100 From: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten) To: brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970217232234.peter@grendel.> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970217135738.12801C-100000@cold.org>; from Brandon Gillespie on Feb 17, 1997 13:57:46 -0700 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970217135738.12801C-100000@cold.org>
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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. - Peter -- Peter Korsten | peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (UUCP) | peterk@IAEhv.nl C/C++/Perl/Java hacker
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