From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 9: 9:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010E637B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@FreeBSD.org) Received: from strontium.shef.vinosystems.com ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15JH7z-000Oh5-00; Sun, 08 Jul 2001 17:09:47 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.shef.vinosystems.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f68G9ll28965; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:09:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: strontium.shef.vinosystems.com: ben set sender to ben@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:09:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Peter Wemm Cc: Will Andrews , Jason Evans , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Bill Fenner , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010708170947.G289@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com> References: <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder.. The real question is whether it is a faithful > enough drop-in replacement for nvi. I'll alias it on some of my machines > and see if it bites me or not. Here's one thing that annoys me: $ crontab -e crontab: temp file must be edited in place the solut^W kludge I use (EDITOR=nvi crontab -e) is easier than finding out how to configure Vim to avoid this, but I'm sure there's a way. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message