From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 06:46:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01817 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 06:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.shellnet.co.uk (mailhost.shellnet.co.uk [194.129.209.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA01808 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 06:46:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk) Received: by mailhost.shellnet.co.uk with MERCUR-SMTP/POP3-Server (v2.10) for at Sat, 17 Jan 98 14:46:07 +0000 From: "Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator)" To: Subject: EDQUOTA and selected editor. Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:46:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Message-Id: <9801171446071200@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I commonly use joe (Joe's Own Editor) as my default editor, and I have set the EDITOR variable to be joe. Therefore, most applications that call on a text editors will usually run joe, or if the variable is not set, vi. I am trying to run EDQUOTA on my system, with resonable success - however, vi is a problem for me - I have limited experience with it and I would much prefer to use joe. However, running edquota, with EDITOR=joe (proved by echo $EDITOR), it always uses vi as the editor ..... after the man pages tell me that: The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the environment variable EDITOR specifies otherwise. But - even if joe is set as the editor, edquota always runs vi ! Is this a bug in the system or am I doing something wrong ? I would appreciate any help here Thanks Steven Fletcher Shellnet IRC and Quake server admin ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk / steven@shellnet.co.uk