From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 10:28:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20124 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:28:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from freeside.fc.net (reclaimed.agis.net [204.157.153.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20118 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:28:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.8.5/8.6.6) id MAA12526; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:28:08 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199702181828.MAA12526@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? To: brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:28:07 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brandon Gillespie" at Feb 18, 97 10:51:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brandon Gillespie babbled: > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:51:12 -0700 (MST) > From: Brandon Gillespie > To: Peter Korsten > > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Peter Korsten wrote: > > > > Not everyone is familiar with vi, you know. ':wq' or 'ZZ' to save > > a file, switching between edit mode and visual mode which is not > > visible... If you want FreeBSD to be installable by other people > > that Your Average Wizard, don't choose vi. > > > > So therefore, 'ee' was chosen, because that editor keeps a handy > > menu with often used keystrokes. It isn't very big either, which > > was another consideration. > > > > And what the heck, it's easily reconfigured anyway. > > Yeah, so leave it with the _STANDARD_ 'vi' and change the sysinstall post > configuration to 'setup root environment' rather than just set root's > password, and allow the editor to be selected there. > > This change makes 1% of the people happy and just irritated 80%+ of the > other admins. I'd like to second this notion. I'm not going to defend vi, because it's certainly not the world's best editor, but there's a lot to be said for the default editor being the same on every system one might log into. "ee" will never qualify. -- Jerry Dunham GS650G Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.