Re: changing default editor

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> writes:

> Hi all
> 
> tryng to change the default editor on a potato 2.2.r4 system so users
> who're not comfortable with vi can use mutt to send messages
> 
> I tried:
> 
> EDITOR=jed; export EDITOR
> 
> which works until the user logs out
> 
> any thoughts on making it stick?

Put:

export EDITOR=jed

in your ~/.bashrc...  or:

set editor=jed

in your ~/.muttrc

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