Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:45:29 -0400 From: Mark E Doner <nuintari@amplex.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi, Message-ID: <4A47C859.9010500@amplex.net> In-Reply-To: <200906261033.58894.erich@apsara.com.sg> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260955.50697.erich@apsara.com.sg> <20090626040230.18f606b1.freebsd@edvax.de> <200906261033.58894.erich@apsara.com.sg>
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Erich Dollansky wrote: > On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: > >> Polytropon >> From Magdeburg, Germany >> > > big brother is watching me. > > An xterm just came up with this message: > > "The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use > when you have learned it, but somewhat user-unfriendly. To use > ee (an easier but less powerful editor) instead, set the > environment variable EDITOR to /usr/bin/ee" > > Isn't this the best reasoning why it should stay as it is? > Wouldn't it be cool if there was an option you could toss in make.conf, like VI_PREFIX=foo, which defaults to /usr of course? Then people who want to move vi to /bin could rebuild world without worrying about it redoing such a move after every big upgrade, and people who don't want it moved, do nothing. Not that I encourage feature creep or anything.
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