From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 18:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29EE537B552 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 18:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from ROADRUNNER (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA16214 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 23:35:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <018201bfc1fb$f1eb8780$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: Setting environment variable "EDITOR" in vipw Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 11:37:17 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to change the default editor in vipw from "vi" to "ee" . "Man vipw" tells me I need to do something with an environment variable, but doesn't say exactly where the thing is. I've browsed around the mailing list archives but although lots of people appear to have had problems with the same issue, there doesn't appear to be any straightforward explanation of environment variables. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message