Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:51:21 GMT From: "Phil Taylor" <phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Subject: Re: A lame hack ... Message-ID: <1F1AE1E1163@lansys.webleicester.co.uk>
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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)
>
Personally I prefer pico (part of pine). As long as the file you are
editing isn't too long (< a few meg). It has full cut/paste etc in a
pretty easy to use package, I also think it is quicker than ee. I
must admit though that pico is no use for serious program editing as
it has none of the emacs style formatting features but it's still a
good text editor.
>
> You could even switch it over to German messages... :-)
>
Not with pine, unless you want to write them yourself.. :-(
Cheers
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