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From: "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@mail.tgci.com>
To: chaos@tgci.com, Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 19:12:57 +0000
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Subject: Re: rc.conf vs sysconfig in 2.2.2-RELEASE
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> Date:          Mon, 26 May 1997 13:11:14 -0800 (AKDT)
> From:          Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
> To:            chaos@tgci.com
> Cc:            questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:       Re: rc.conf vs sysconfig in 2.2.2-RELEASE

> On Mon, 26 May 1997, Riley J. McIntire wrote:
> 
> > Also, could someone let me know how to change the default editor from 
> > ee to vi?
> 
> yeah - "export EDITOR=vi" in /etc/profile, ~/.profile, etc.
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>  Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x
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> 
But doesn't this just change it for the login shell?  Not systemwide? 
 Do I need to recompile a kernel to do this?

tia,

Riley