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Use Terminal's vi as default text editor
Authored by: sominsky on Thu, Mar 20 2008 at 10:42PM PDT

Ooh, this is nice. I'm thrilled that my first hint submission has gone so well. Maybe I'll do more :)

I'm saving your script in place of my own, by the way. This does *exactly* what I want.