From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 18 07:11:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA02465 for current-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 07:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-161.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA02458; Sat, 18 May 1996 07:10:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA02611; Fri, 17 May 1996 01:07:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199605162307.BAA02611@vector.jhs.no_domain> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.jhs.no_domain: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org cc: Christoph Kukulies , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Subject: Re: /stand/ee From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (pending modem change) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH version 1.6.5 95 12 11, PGP available In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 11:55:15 +0200." <199605160955.LAA18425@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 01:07:28 +0200 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Reference: > From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" > All I can do for now is suggest a change in > /root/.cshrc: > > if ( -x /usr/bin/vi ) then > setenv EDITOR vi > else > setenv EDITOR /stand/ee > fi Nice idea, (except ee not /stand/ee). I offered to port a mini-vi-clone (elvis or equivalent), when ee was forced in, but the offer was rejected, & i've no time now (I'm fighting hardware). Though ee is smaller than vi: strip /usr/bin/ee -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 61440 May 13 05:45 /usr/bin/ee /usr/bin/ee: FreeBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable it's not smaller than some vi clones I've ported years ago. Someone argued a rank newbie might prefer ee : But it says both `Unix' & `4.4 BSD-Lite' on the CDROM label, our BSD Unix clone OS should by default use a standard BSD VI clone, not non standard tools. (Not to denigrate other editors, it's nice to see 'em in ports/ ) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/