From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 11:43:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01268 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01263 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 11:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet9.buffnet.net (buffnet9.buffnet.net [205.246.19.19]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10609; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:43:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net(205.246.19.55) by buffnet9.buffnet.net via smap (V2.0) id xma028260; Thu, 29 May 97 14:42:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 14:43:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Joshua Fielden cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 step forward 2 steps back In-Reply-To: <338DC42F.BA6A5986@concentric.net> 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, Joshua Fielden wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > > > > > If you don't know enough to put setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi or > > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi in your .cshrc or .profile, then your > > not experienced, and maybe should use ee. Sicking vi on a newbie > > is a cruel joke that isn't needed anymore. > > Personally, I thought sicking vi on ANYBODY was a cruel joke. :-) > I think its a matter of ones audience. As a system admin, my audience is users, many newbies, and therefore I might choose to make ee or pico their default editor. As a system developer putting out something like freebsd, the audience is administrators who have to set the thing up, and for umpteen gajillian ages, we've been using vi and our fingers do their own thing at this point. At least mine do, so it was a little annoying, when I thought my 1 hour install took all day because network settings didnt take, and the editor ditch cause I assumed vi was vi and my fingers did their own thing at their own pace.