Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:55:00 -0400 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <20020807145500.GA97278@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208071446.g77Ekgw08922@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200208070144.g771idL39151@tierzero.apana.org.au> <200208071446.g77Ekgw08922@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:46:41AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Do not, I repeat DO NOT change the default editor from vi. Go ahead and > make it really really easy for someone to choose another one - it is > already quite easy. But changing the default editor is a bad bad idea. > It works well under every environment - even some you newbies can't > imagine exist. Not *every* environment. When /tmp can't be mounted rw, vi isn't much use . . . hawk, who found it surprisingly easy to learn ed when that happened To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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