From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 12 4:52:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E6D37B400; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CF043E3B; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schweikh@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (schweikh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g7CBqPJU002611; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schweikh@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from schweikh@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g7CBqP5g002607; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:52:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jens Schweikhardt Message-Id: <200208121152.g7CBqP5g002607@freefall.freebsd.org> To: ripper@eskimo.com, schweikh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/40843: ee should be default editor of root Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: ee should be default editor of root State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: schweikh State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 12 04:47:09 PDT 2002 State-Changed-Why: Not wanting to start an editor war, but I think the solution for teaching newbies (if they do not want to learn vi) is to educate them about the EDITOR variable. vi has been the default editor for so many programs and so many years that it would be a POLA violation to change this for a BSD system that's up and running. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=40843 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message