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From: David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: vipw doing something strange on 2.2(.1)
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As a strong vi user I believe that vipw should always use vi irrespective of
the setting of EDITOR; sure you can have an editpw which runs whatever
EDITOR is set to, but vipw is meant to run vi otherwise it wouldn't be
called vipw!

Dave