From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 13:41:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nscache2.x-treme.gr (mail1.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF5537BC5A for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat32.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.224]) by nscache2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id AAA06421; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:41:14 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA02385; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:58:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 22:58:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Cliff Rowley Cc: outlawtx@bga.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I change the default editor? Message-ID: <20000401225814.B2295@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <3.0.6.32.20000331181501.019ae980@bga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dozprompt@onsea.com on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:44:51AM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:44:51AM +0100, Cliff Rowley wrote: | Change the EDITOR environment variable - only programs that respect | this variable will be affected. Of course, the rest of the programs -- those that do not respect it -- should not be used at all, or fixed to behave themselves. I would even go as far as asking anyone that finds out of one program that can not understand EDITOR when set, would be welcome to report it with send-pr so that it may be fixed by some happy-BSD-hacker. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message