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Re: Newbie questions



* John (bagdanof@attbi.com) [Mar 10. 2003 09:48]:

> Anyone tell me how to make the default editor of most to nano? Most is
> using vi at the moment. & I'm not sure where to change it. my default
> editor is:

..snip..

> I also tried:
> # MOST_EDITOR='nano %s'
> and
> # SLANG_EDITOR="nano %s"     #not sure re: quotes vs tick marks
> 				I tried both ways.

Is that exactly what you're using at the bash(?) prompt? If so, that
won't work. 

Try export:

  export MOST_EDITOR="nano %s" SLANG_EDITOR="nano %s"

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