From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 19:50:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.networkiowa.com (ns1.networkiowa.com [209.234.64.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB3F37BB12 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl.72.145.networkiowa.com [209.234.72.145]) by ns1.networkiowa.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA24329; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:53:49 -0500 Message-ID: <38E8070F.10B8BAD7@raccoon.com> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 21:50:55 -0500 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: outlawtx@bga.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! References: <3.0.6.32.20000331182912.019ae4f0@bga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you just want to change your default editor, it depends on which shell you are using. If you are using csh edit your .login file and look for the line: SETENV EDITOR vi If you are using bourne shell, edit your .profile and look for: EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR When you create a new login on the system, the default shell startup config files are copied from /usr/share/skel into the new user's home directory. If you want to fix it for every new user created, then edit the files in that directory. johnl outlawtx@bga.com wrote: > > Hello, > > How do I change the default text editor? > > Don James > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message