system wide default editor

[Florian Diesch]

Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> writes:

> When I create a cron job with crontab -e, a pico looking ( nano whatever
> name ) pops up as my editor.
>
> How do I change the default editor in Ubuntu Hardy to vi or emacs -nw.

Most programs use the environment variables $EDITOR or $VISUAL if they
are defined and "editor" otherwise. You can configure "editor" using
  sudo update-alternatives --config editor

> in the world would anyone want to use this 1st grade dos looking
> text editor if they installed Linux?

Because Emacs isn't installed by default and vi just beeps. ;-)


   Florian
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