On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, James A. Robinson wrote: > Well, I imagine if one takes that idea further, one would say that ae > is the editor on the base disk because it is easier to use.
Plus it's very small. > I think the real reason goes back to the fact that experienced users > can set their EDITOR variable, or handle ae. That's why I made ae the default editor for vipw. That and the fact that otherwise, vipw on the base disks won't work. And for those of you who think I should rename vipw to aepw or editpw or emacspw or that I should look at the first strlen()-2 letters and try to call that, I saw: Pbtlhhhh! Guy