On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:06:23 +0100, Gerhard den Hollander
* Dumb Waiter
(Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:03:23PM +0200) Hi,
How does one force bash to use emacs (or uemacs) for editing, in Suse 9.2? (I mean in a KDE's konsole window.)
A while ago I installed some VIM and emacs packages and uemacs; among them kvim. (Kvim I later uninstalled.)
Now, for some reason, when I try to edit anything and type in bash for example 'edit myfile', the editor that starts is vim 6.3.
Why don;t you type xemacs myfile or emacs myfile or uemacs myfile
The point is, I want to learn how I can change the bash environment. This present problem I could circumvent by typing uemacs myfile, but perhaps some next problem would be much more complicated to solve. That is why I would like to know how the environment can be modified. The Suse manuals don't seem to reveal this to me, nor does any of the books I have consulted; it all really _seems_ simple (apart from the various names different sources use for the files where bash might or might not be looking for it's variables) -- but it boils down to just not working: vim starts every time... I wonder where I went wrong. (Apart from being born the person I am.) dw