From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 10:10:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA26354 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 10:10:04 -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 KAA26349 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 10:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA18050; Thu, 29 May 1997 17:09:52 GMT Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 10:09:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: "Paul T. Root" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 step forward 2 steps back In-Reply-To: <199705291221.HAA19744@horton.iaces.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 Thu, 29 May 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Dan Busarow said: > > 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. > > I disagree. I think it's reasonable that the "dummy editor" is the > proper default. Think about it. Who is more capable of changing the OK, then there should be an "I prefer vi" option. Since I rarely login as root, I don't set root's environment until I bump into this. It's just a minor hassle. I also know it was hashed out quite a while back and assume ee won. 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