From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 28 13:12:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00110 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 13:12:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA29988 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 13:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA12834 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 20:12:37 GMT Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 step forward 2 steps back In-Reply-To: <23533.864844310@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- 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