From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 15 14:41:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA10380 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU (ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU [138.237.128.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10374 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:41:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riogrande.cs.tcu.edu (TCUCS6.CS.TCU.EDU) by ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #15868) id <01I3KSJT51N4000GN4@ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:36:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wichita.cs.tcu.edu by riogrande.cs.tcu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07707; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:36:47 -0500 (CDT) Received: by wichita.cs.tcu.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27459; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:37:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Tam Weng Seng Subject: A lame hack ... In-reply-to: <199604102010.WAA01273@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~ ~ Live long and prosper.... tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu o o Peace and Long life..... Weng Seng, Tam i or TCU PO BOX 32593 GOD bless you Fort Worth, Tx 76129 \_/ <|-) <|-) %-) [] :* :-) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++