Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editor for vipw Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02A.9809131138570.12867-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <5060100023353721000002L012*@MHS>
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In root's .profile file, enter: EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/emacs; export EDITOR Then you should be using the emacs editor. Though it sounds like some paths might be screwed up on your system if you have ee in /usr/bash. /usr/bash is not a default binary directory. Usually, /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin Should be in root's path (and optionally /stand, /usr/local/bin, and /usr/X11R6/bin). Joe Clarke On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Ghulum Dastgir wrote: > Hi, > > i've had problem adding test users to master.passwd, and it's because i've been > accessing this file directly through emacs, since vipw uses the vi editor by > default. > Now if i want to get vipw to use the emacs editor by default then presumably I > change the EDITOR env. variable to emacs, like so: > > EDITOR=emacs export EDITOR > > right? > > I usually do this on the command line and it works ... usually ... i think! > > i've tried adding this command to one of the shell startup files and when i > reboot vipw resorts to using vi. ahh, also when i echo $EDITOR it returns > "/bin/bash/ee". what is this? is ee an editor. > > thanx, > > ghulam > > 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
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