Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:59:07 +0200 From: Anton Sayetsky <vsasjason@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update editor choice Message-ID: <CAA2O=b-W1MV=0RGy_M7VO_d_HjJ6HkiKa%2B%2BheUOgca3eJOQ9sw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20151215124601.GA4020@becker.bs.l> References: <20151213182848.M69104@brightstar.bomgardner.net> <20151215124601.GA4020@becker.bs.l>
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15 =D0=B4=D0=B5=D0=BA. 2015 =D0=B3. 14:46 =D0=BF=D0=BE=D0=BB=D1=8C=D0=B7=D0= =BE=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=82=D0=B5=D0=BB=D1=8C "Bertram Scharpf" < lists@bertram-scharpf.de> =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=BB: > > Hi, > > On Sunday, 13. Dec 2015, 12:31:22 -0600, Gene wrote: > > I'm using freebsd-update to update my 10.1 system to 10.2. When merging files, > > it insists on using the 'vi' editor. I really, really, REALLY, despise vi. Is > > there a way to get it to use another editor? > > The problem I fussed about many times and long times without > any understanding up to this day is not how but _where_ to > set the EDITOR environment variable. There is > > - /etc/login.conf This applies to all logins. > - /etc/rc You should never touch this file. > - /etc/profile (and /etc/zprofile) For bash-like and zsh shells, system wide. > - /etc/csh.cshrc (or /etc/zshrc) For [t]csh and zsh, system wide. > - ~/.profile (and ~/.zprofile) Bash-like and zsh, user-specific. > - ~/.shrc, ~/.cshrc, (or ~/.zshrc) For sh, [t]csh and zsh, user specific. *rc usually read when shell starts, *profile only when entering interactive session, AFAIK. Advanced shells will read all supported files, for example zsh can read shrc, bashrc and respective *profile. Also, can you show me the shell where this isn't documented in manpage? ;-) > - probably some more I forgot here > > Some programs change their behaviour in dependence of the > EDITOR variable. For example if you log into a host with the > command > > $ ssh otherhost -t tmux > > most of the above files are left unregarded and the TMux > option 'status-keys' may be set to an undesired value. > > Is there any documentation in which order and under which > circumstances the above files are executed or come into > respect? > > By the way: there was a time when I considered Vi/Vim a > really, really, REALLY weird approach to editing. Then I > managed to change my opinion and gave it a try. It was one > of the best decisions in my life. Of course, this mail is > written in Vim. > > Bertram > > > -- > Bertram Scharpf > Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany > http://www.bertram-scharpf.de > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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