Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

[Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com>]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:55:46 +0200
Sebastian Haglund <bosen@home.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:32 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> 
> It depends on on your shell, I'll assume bash (it's the default in
> debian if I'm not misstaken)
> 
> Check the EDITOR variable:
> echo $EDITOR
> 
> Set it:
> export EDITOR=vi
> 
> If you want to make it permanent add
> export EDITOR=vi
> to your ~/.bashrc

Thanks, done, works great.
> 
> Here is a link to get started:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-tutorial/index.html
> 
I know, there is a lot for me to learn... Thanks for suggesting.

Ben
> 
> /Sebastian
> 
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