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From: "Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator)" <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk>
To: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" <akm@mother.sneaker.net.au>
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Subject: RE: EDQUOTA and selected editor.
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:23:20 -0000
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Thanks for the help - it worked, I was unaware that set and export were
different :)

Steven Fletcher
Shellnet IRC / Quake server admin
ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk / steven@shellnet.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Kenneth Milton [mailto:akm@mother.sneaker.net.au]
> Sent: 17 January 1998 15:25
> To: Steven Fletcher
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: EDQUOTA and selected editor.
>
>
> +-----[ 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.
>
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