[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 16:41:24 EDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de> wrote:
> * Attila <attila at invalid.invalid> [2008-08-30 20:12]:
>>
>> And this works? I even see vi if i run a "crontab -e" which is the reason that
>> i don't remove it until now. This is not bad because i use anacron and so i
>> have only to fight one time for one line with vi.-)
>
> $ VISUAL=nano crontab -e

Oh man, can we stop this discussion? Both are staying.

For the record, though, vi is required by SUS v2. While I don't think
we follow all directives of the spec, it's useful to know that there
*is* a standard that says "vi is part of unix"

http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcuix.html



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