Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:25:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: vipw doing something strange on 2.2(.1) Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970413012235.6338E-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <9704121840.AA02294@amu7.cs.man.ac.uk>
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On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, David Alan Gilbert wrote: > As a strong vi user I believe that vipw should always use vi irrespective of > the setting of EDITOR; sure you can have an editpw which runs whatever > EDITOR is set to, but vipw is meant to run vi otherwise it wouldn't be > called vipw! I have to agree. I kind of flipped when this wierd screen came up the first time I ran vipw on 2.2 I know there was discussion a couple months ago but I don't remember it putting ee in as the default editor for root. For the installation maybe, but not root. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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