From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 30 04:12:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA29862 for current-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au (felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.AU [129.78.16.135]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA29839 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 04:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from patc@localhost) by felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au (8.7.4/8.7.3) id PAA01699; Wed, 22 May 1996 15:03:49 +1000 From: Pat Caldon Message-Id: <199605220503.PAA01699@felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au> Subject: Re: /stand/ee To: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:03:47 +1000 (EST) Cc: Andreas@felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au, Klemm@felix.antiquity.arts.su.edu.au, , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Fieber" at May 20, 96 10:27:09 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > consequently not justified. I have yet to meet file in /etc that > where vi or emacs has proven to be discernably more capable or > efficient than pico. I'd point to being able to delete vast quantities of guff on the basis of a regular expression as useful. > Every time this editor war comes up, I see a bazillion posts from > diehard vi users that conflate the concept of a "standard" > editor with the concept of the "one true editor". The two > concepts are mutually exclusive. A practical solution is perhaps to have a sysconfig option (or similar) with "System Default Editor". Have this set up in the _install_ procedure and have it set EDITOR approprately, as well as aliasing "edit" or whatever the naeive user picks to ee or pico (god forbid vi). Provide both ee and ex (or vi if there is room) in /stand. An appropriate list of editors would be: microemacs vi ee pico joe (lots of DOS users know and love WordStar). This will of course require more maintenace effort and will swell /stand to be too big; OTOH it will bring peace to this mailing list, which well justifies the cost. pat.