From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 16 01:15:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA06662 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 01:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA06657 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 01:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I4RQ849W1S000XXR@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:14:28 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12357; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:21:31 +0200 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:21:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: Re: /stand/ee In-reply-to: <199605160111.KAA01107@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199605160821.KAA12357@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > > > 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. That's not my point. Sure I know of the fact that it's defined by the EDITOR variable in .cshrc. It's just the fact that's it's still set to ee in .cshrc after a fresh installation requiring another handediting step to change it back to something normal. > > Obviously you've never had to give over-the-shoulder vi lessons. Do you find ee a more intutive editor? It's better to use and hate vi than to be inefficient with 20 systems. [Eric Weedaa (BIX), Tucson AZ] > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de