Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:14:58 +0200
Sebastian Haglund <bosen@home.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Always, when I read a file, I type for example
> >
> > less /etc/acpi/acpi
> >
> > And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for editing. It
> > was very fne upuntil now, but nowdays I was removing quite a few
> > packages, and suddenly when I press "v" inside "less" I will get
> > mc's (Midnight Commander) editor, which is the blue screen. I really
> > prefer hi the real good old "vi" for editing. How can I put it back?
> > By the way, "vi" is still installed (nvi) and I can execute it like
> >
> > vi /etc/acpi/acpi
> >
> > Why less wont use vi as it's editor anymore?
>
> >From the less manpage:
>
> v Invokes an editor to edit the current file being viewed.
> The
> editor is taken from the environment variable VISUAL if
> defined, or EDITOR if VISUAL is not defined, or defaults to
> "vi" if nei- ther VISUAL nor EDITOR is defined. See also
> the discussion of LESSEDIT under the section on PROMPTS below.
>
>
> Check your VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables.
Hi. Could you walk me through it please? I am not very comfortable with
checking those variables, as I dont know how to. THanks.
Benedek
>
> /Sebastian
>
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