Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Tam Weng Seng <tam@wichita.cs.tcu.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A lame hack ... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960415162325.27432C-100000@wichita> In-Reply-To: <199604102010.WAA01273@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Hi,
Since I really know very little about FreeBSD, and Operating
Systems in general, I was wandering how difficult it would be to make
a general editor for editing files in /etc simpler. It should have a
similar interface to the /stand/sysinstall. (This means 'vi' does not
count ...). This generality, however, would probably come at the expense
of having to write a directory of configuration files, so that the editor
knows about the different types configuration file, and their different
fields.
Yeah, I know that this is a lame hack ... but since people
have menentioned how ugly modifying files in /etc can get, and I
really need to learn a lot more, before I can do something serious,
I thought I would try starting here ...
In conclusion, I would like to hear some ideas about this.
I will try and get this started and finish something this summer, when I
have more time.
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