How to change the default text editor ?

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Thu Apr 6 09:57:52 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 01:37 +0000, Chris Peterman wrote:
> the EDITOR varible is what controls the text editor. You set it much like any 
> other Environment Var. 
> 
> EDITOR = <command for editor>
> export EDITOR
> 
> to have it set everytime put those in your ~/.bashrc or ~/bash_profile (can't 
> remember which)

Thanks everybody, that did the trick.
However subversion still uses vi unfortunately :-/
So it seems to be a svn specific issue then, I will start a new thread
about it...

--
Vince





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