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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:06:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu
Subject:   Re: A lame hack ...
Message-ID:  <199604160706.JAA16525@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960415162325.27432C-100000@wichita> from "Tam Weng Seng" at Apr 15, 96 04:37:07 pm

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As Tam Weng Seng wrote:

> 	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 ...).

setenv EDITOR ee  (in csh)
export EDITOR=ee  (in Bourne-alike shells)

You could even switch it over to German messages... :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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