Re: vi vs ae

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

> I noticed that somewhere ae has started taking over as the default
> editor in place of vi/vim.
> I have tried placing EDITOR="vi" in the /etc/profile line but it
> doesn't always work.
> 
> CVS was defaulting to ae.
> crontab will sometimes default to ae.
> 
> How do I fix this?  ae is not at all what I am accustomed to and was
> rather dismayed to find it so prevelant on all my systems overnight.
> 
> Is there some history here I wasn't aware of?

type as root:

update-alternatives --config editor

man update-alternatives will tell you a lot of the history.

pietro.