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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies),
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Subject: Re: /stand/ee 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 10:41:31 +0930."
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:38:25 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > I agree that vi is not available in a standalone situation
> > but after a successful installation or when /usr/bin/vi
> > is available something else (vi) rather than /stand/ee should be
> > chosen. It's vipw and not eepw and not emacspw :-)
> 
> Oh yawn.  If you know how to use vi you know how to set EDITOR in 
> your .cshrc.  If you don't, then you want something a little more
> intuitive.

And, FWIW, I don't even like `ee' all that much - it's NOT the most
intuitive of editors, it was simply both small and available.  People
keep suggesting `pico' to me, and it's what BSD/OS uses (so one could
almost sort of claim an attempt at compatibility), but I've never seen
it broken out of pine so I don't know how big it itself is.

					Jordan