From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 12:05:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA27797 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from luke.cpl.net ([206.85.245.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27780 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01264; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:19 GMT Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:05:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Shawn Ramsey X-Sender: shawn@luke.cpl.net To: Jerry Dunham cc: Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? In-Reply-To: <199702181828.MAA12526@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Is this _really_ that big a deal, to even be discussing? I mean, so what if the default editor is ee, it takes 5 seconds to change it to whatever editor you want. Most beginners will be lost in vi, which is why I NEVER use vi anymore.