From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 14:42:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A623137B403 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:42:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15tbyi-000JpI-00; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:42:24 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9GLgKv64213; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:42:20 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:42:20 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Ian Barnes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vipw Message-ID: <20011017104220.C64041@jonc.itouch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from creati0n@area.co.za on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:42:58PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:42:58PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote: > how do i change the editor that vipw uses from vi to joe. i know it can be > done, just dont know how. Add the EDITOR environment to your shell: setenv EDITOR joe (for csh users) export EDITOR=joe (for sh users) -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message