From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 16 02:56:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA12979 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epprod.elsevier.co.uk (epprod.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA12972 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 02:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by epprod.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA05149 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:15 +0100 Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:36 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA28639; Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:15 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199605160955.KAA28639@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: /stand/ee To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 10:55:14 +0100 (BST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605160111.KAA01107@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 16, 96 10:41:31 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who said > > 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. So is ee now the official FreeBSD editor? I grudgingly accepted Jordan's point about having a simple editor for installation but I didn't like the trend then and I still don't like it now. > Obviously you've never had to give over-the-shoulder vi lessons. Learning vi is one of those things you have to do to admin an unix box. If command line editing and mode based editors isn't your thing there are other OS's you can use :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155