On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:01:30AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > right. the question morphs - how come ee has higher priority than vim > (or any other vi clone)? The least surprising (this is linux) editor is > some vi clone... (you get ee, there's no way to tell it's ee, there's no > way to figure out how to save & quit (or quit without saving) - you get > worst of all worlds)
The priorities are skewed towards novice users. I believe the expectation is that people who use vi can probably manage to change the default. As a vi user I'm quite happy for them to stay that way - I think it's a lot worse for a new user not coming from a Unix background to encounter vi by accident than some more fluffy editor. This isn't to say that the priorities might not need tuning a bit. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
