From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 00:51:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA21106 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21086 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA29423; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:51:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA01386; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:51:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA16525; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:06:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604160706.JAA16525@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A lame hack ... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:06:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Tam Weng Seng" at Apr 15, 96 04:37:07 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 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. ;-)