Re: path and editor

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:46:56PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:

> first....what the heck is the command that lets me see what my command
> path is.....?
> 
> I know in unix... you type something like:
> echo $path

maybe try:

  $ echo $PATH

> I guess I could just less /etc/profile....but there must be 
> something else......
> 
> and secondly....
> How would one change the default editor ?
> I looked in the /etc/profile  again... and found no reference to EDITOR....
> so I'm wondering if its configured somewhere else....

I hope you're not normally logged on as root!  Judging from your
questions that's extremely dangerous.

PATH gets its initial value in /etc/profile (depending on your login shell
that is), but next the .profile and some .bash* from your $HOME directory
are sourced, so you'll have to look in those files too.  Besides that's
the place to change the default editor per user.

And now for some the anwsers:)

Changing the default editor system wide:

   $ man update-alternatives

Changing the default editor per user:

   add a line to your ~/.bash_profile file like:

       export EDITOR="emacs or vi or something else"

-- 
groetjes, carel