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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
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 Dan Busarow                                                  714 443 4172
 DPC Systems / Beach.Net                                    dan@dpcsys.com
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