Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:46:32 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" <stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960524174050.3125A-100000-100000@platon>
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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.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------
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