On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:06:02PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > If I do a 'crontab -e' I get a strange editor, unlike vim > > which I get on met 2.1 box. Is there a way to change this > > behaviour? > > it reads the value of $EDITOR from the shell and defaults to ae > otherwise. In your .bashrc place: > > EDITOR=myeditor > export EDITOR > > this helps in many places. > > as an extra setting PAGER=less will use less instead of more > for things like man page viewing. >
In Debian you have the alternatives system. You can use alternatives to decide which editor must be the default editor. See man 'update-alternatives' for more info. You can use 'update-alternatives --config editor' to change the default editor. For those who want Vim when 'vi' is called can have a look at 'update-alternatives --config vi' There also exists an entry for 'pager'. Each file in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives is an alternative. HTH. -- Manoj Victor Mathew (GPG#: 3D96A9B9) Cochin, India.
