From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 11 22:54:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA06376 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA06370 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22531 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Sep 1997 05:54:43 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Branson Matheson Subject: Re: ATTN Emacs users; new Zile release Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Branson Matheson; On 11-Sep-97 you wrote: ... > Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is > and always has been the standard editor for unix. I think it should > stay that way. One of the first two commands on any new boxen that I > create is: I agree with your opinion, but sorry to disagree on vi; It is not the standard Unix(tm) editor. I worked on unix for almost a decade before this new fangled vi editor even showed up :-) the standard Unix editor is ed. This may be different in bsd. > rm /usr/bin/ee ; ln -s /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/ee What for? export EDITOR=vi (setenv editor vi) will do the same without killing things. --- Sincerely Yours, (Sent on 11-Sep-97, 22:37:23 by XF-Mail) Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.643.5559, Emergency: 503.799.2313