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Date:      Wed, 28 May 1997 13:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 1 step forward 2 steps back 
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970528130756.11703F-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <23533.864844310@time.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 28 May 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Excuse me?

Using ee as the default editor.  Ie, vipw runs ee.  It's pretty
disconcerting.  I think you should dump ee, but a "I don't know
vi.  Give me a dummy editor" option in the install would be OK too.
It's not so much that it's hard to add setenv EDITOR vi to root's
.cshrc as it is the surprise factor cause you see this while
still in the install.

Someone else wrote:
> > One thing I also noticed, is that vi is no longer vi, but now looks like
> > wordstar 1.0 from the old dual floppy days.

Dan
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