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Re: [SLE] Re: early vi -- ed -- edlin
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:12:21 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511121606040.13305@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Friday 2005-11-11 at 13:10 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> It's too bad that
> vi still occupies a prominent place in Linux; as I remember it's the editor
> you need to use to modify the sudoers file (or maybe it's some other system
> file).
That's not true any more.
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/jstar
and those system commands will use your prefered editor. Vi is not
"required", it is just the "default" editor. You have "joe" in the rescue
dvd, for instance.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Friday 2005-11-11 at 13:10 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> It's too bad that
> vi still occupies a prominent place in Linux; as I remember it's the editor
> you need to use to modify the sudoers file (or maybe it's some other system
> file).
That's not true any more.
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/jstar
and those system commands will use your prefered editor. Vi is not
"required", it is just the "default" editor. You have "joe" in the rescue
dvd, for instance.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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