Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:28:07 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root EDITOR as 'ee' in 2.2?? Message-ID: <199702181828.MAA12526@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970218104850.15220C-100000@cold.org> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Feb 18, 97 10:51:12 am
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Brandon Gillespie babbled: > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:51:12 -0700 (MST) > From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> > To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> > > On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Peter Korsten wrote: > > > > Not everyone is familiar with vi, you know. ':wq' or 'ZZ' to save > > a file, switching between edit mode and visual mode which is not > > visible... If you want FreeBSD to be installable by other people > > that Your Average Wizard, don't choose vi. > > > > So therefore, 'ee' was chosen, because that editor keeps a handy > > menu with often used keystrokes. It isn't very big either, which > > was another consideration. > > > > And what the heck, it's easily reconfigured anyway. > > Yeah, so leave it with the _STANDARD_ 'vi' and change the sysinstall post > configuration to 'setup root environment' rather than just set root's > password, and allow the editor to be selected there. > > This change makes 1% of the people happy and just irritated 80%+ of the > other admins. I'd like to second this notion. I'm not going to defend vi, because it's certainly not the world's best editor, but there's a lot to be said for the default editor being the same on every system one might log into. "ee" will never qualify. -- Jerry Dunham GS650G Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.
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