From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 7:54:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7F737B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (slytherin.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C65B43E3B for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g77Et0H7097301 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:55:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: (from hawk@localhost) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g77Et0CG097300 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:55:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:55:00 -0400 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" 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> References: <200208070144.g771idL39151@tierzero.apana.org.au> <200208071446.g77Ekgw08922@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208071446.g77Ekgw08922@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: House of Hawkins Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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