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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: /stand/ee
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> Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> Given the other things that have to be done anyway, it's hardly stressful.

One thing more to be done after an installation is another thing too much.
Excuse me when I insist here at a seemingly boring point. It should be
the objective to automate installation as much as possible. 

It's bad enough that the X installation isn't yet at a point where it  
can measure with Linux distributions. Putting more stumbling blocks 
than necessary into the installation process is something in the
wrong direction.

I have great respect at Jordans efforts in the field of installation
and I know how hard it is to deliver fool proof user interfaces.

All I can do for now is suggest a change in 
/root/.cshrc:

if ( -x /usr/bin/vi ) then
   setenv       EDITOR  vi
else
   setenv       EDITOR /stand/ee
fi

hoping that the discussion doesn't heat up at nits.

> > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de