From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 07:13:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03252 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 07:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mother.sneaker.net.au (akm@mother.sneaker.net.au [203.30.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03246 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 07:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akm@mother.sneaker.net.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mother.sneaker.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA14448; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:24:53 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199801171524.CAA14448@mother.sneaker.net.au> Subject: Re: EDQUOTA and selected editor. To: ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk (Steven Fletcher) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:24:52 +1100 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9801171446071200@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> from "Steven Fletcher" at Jan 17, 98 02:46:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk +-----[ Steven Fletcher ]------------------------------ | | I commonly use joe (Joe's Own Editor) as my default editor, and I have set | the EDITOR variable to be joe. | | The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the environment variable EDITOR | specifies otherwise. If you are running sh, zsh, bash, ksh you need to export the variable i.e. export EDITOR if you are using csh or derivatives, then you should use setenv EDITOR joe rather than assigning variables directly. -- ,-_|\ SneakerNet | Andrew Milton | GSM: +61(41)6 022 411 / \ P.O. Box 154 | akm@sneaker.net.au | Fax: +61(2) 9746 8233 \_,-._/ N Strathfield +--+----------------------+---+ Ph: +61(2) 9746 8233 v NSW 2137 | Low cost Internet Solutions |