From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 13 5:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDDF37B400; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from altair.mukappabeta.net (altair.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D518543E81; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from mukappabeta.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by altair.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D261750; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:59:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D5902C3.2010007@mukappabeta.de> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:59:47 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020608 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en, en-us, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert Cc: schweikh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/40843: ee should be default editor of root References: <200208121255.FAA05787@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ross Lippert wrote: >Either ee is sincerely adopted as THE default editor of FreeBSD, or we >should stop kidding ourselves and tell any newbie that we consider vi > I think one should remove ee from the base system, and move it to the ports collection, where all the other non-standard editors are. Even for a beginner's editor, it's quite horrible, imho. Besides, the name collides with some better known programs, among which is a popular image viewer, iirc. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message