From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 11 21:56:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13985 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13970 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA14178; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:55:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: John Lind cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vipw doing something strange on 2.2(.1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, John Lind wrote: > What editor is this that suddenly presents itself to me when I run > vipw? Why is it doing this? I can get around it by setting the > EDITOR environment variable, but I didn't see anything about this in > the doco, and wonder what is going on. That's ee, which is the current default editor in FreeBSD. There was a good deal of discussion on this in -hackers not long ago. > BTW, I don't keep up with this list, so please include me in your > reply. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > > John Lind, Starfire Consulting Services > E-mail: john@starfire.MN.ORG USnail: PO Box 17247, Mpls MN 55417 > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."