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Date:      Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:59:47 +0200
From:      Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
To:        Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
Cc:        schweikh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/40843: ee should be default editor of root
Message-ID:  <3D5902C3.2010007@mukappabeta.de>
References:  <200208121255.FAA05787@eskimo.com>

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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



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