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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith),
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Subject: Re: /stand/ee 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 10:21:31 +0200."
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Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 03:44:52 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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. 

And for good reason.  Let's say you've never touched UNIX before, but
you load this FreeBSD thingy and, at a couple of points in the
installation, it splats this goofy editor toy in your face.  "OK," you
say, "Another goofy editor to learn."  You spend a couple of minutes
learning the key set and find that it's not all that difficult (once
you figure out that files can only be saved via the ESC menu :-).
Mission accomplished, you proceed through the install and finally find
yourself at the boot prompt.  "Hoorah!" you say.  You log in, use the
system for an hour or two, and then horror of horrors, you find a BUG
in the system!  You want to send it to the maintainers, and you've
seen `send-pr' mentioned on their web page, so you type `send-pr' and
hey, what do you know!  It's that goofy editor again!  Oh well, at
least the command set is still fresh.

And so on..

Now imagine instead the user's annoyance if they got _yet another_
goofy editor instead at the send-pr point.

"Eh?  They want me to learn *two* goofy editors in the space of an
hour?  What are these sadistic idiots trying to do to me?"

:-)

					Jordan