From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 08:51:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA20503 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:51:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntserv.webleicester.co.uk ([206.249.75.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20495 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 08:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.249.75.17] by ntserv.webleicester.co.uk (NTMail 3.01.00) id pa002407; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:51:19 +0000 Received: from LANSYS/SpoolDir by lansys.webleicester.co.uk (Mercury 1.21); 16 Apr 96 16:51:47 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by LANSYS (Mercury 1.21); 16 Apr 96 16:51:22 +0000 From: "Phil Taylor" Organization: Lan Systems To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:51:21 GMT Subject: Re: A lame hack ... Reply-to: phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk CC: tam@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Message-ID: <1F1AE1E1163@lansys.webleicester.co.uk> X-Info: The Web Factory (Leicester) Elecctronic Mail System 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) > 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 /* Phil Taylor phil@webleicester.co.uk LAN Systems - LAN/WAN Specialists Tel: (Direct Line) 0116 223 0033 (Main Number) 0116 255 9961 (Facsimile) 0116 255 8861 */