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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:33:56 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> w=
rote:
>=20
> On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote:
> > Polytropon
> > From Magdeburg, Germany
>=20
> big brother is watching me.

Yes, Dr. Sch=E4uble does so. :-)



> An xterm just came up with this message:
>=20
> "The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use=20
> when you have learned it, but somewhat user-unfriendly.  To use=20
> ee (an easier but less powerful editor) instead, set the=20
> environment variable EDITOR to /usr/bin/ee"
>=20
> Isn't this the best reasoning why it should stay as it is?

The ee editor isn't that bad. Especially ^K and ^L are more
easy to use than vi's edit buffer equivalent.

While there's ed and ex in /rescue, ee isn't.

	% which ee | xargs ldd
	/usr/bin/ee:
	        libncurses.so.7 =3D> /lib/libncurses.so.7 (0x28088000)
	        libc.so.7 =3D> /lib/libc.so.7 (0x280c6000)

Relies on ncurses, but so does dialog / sysinstall...



--=20
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...