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> Hmmm... I for one would not want it to be the standard editor. Vi is
> and always has been the standard editor for unix. I think it should
> stay that way. One of the first two commands on any new boxen that I
> create is:
> 
> rm /usr/bin/ee ; ln -s /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/ee

Similarly, one of the first things I do with a new release of FreeBSD
is to remove

setenv  EDITOR  /usr/bin/ee

from ~root/.cshrc

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no