Christian Dysthe grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> I would like to globally change the default editor in Mandrake 9.1 (vim I
> think) to another one. How can that be done? I have been looking around and
> been asking on IRC, but I am not able to make it work. To be clear: I
> *never* want vim to open any file. I want another editor to simply "replace"
> vim by default.
In your .profile (.bash_login or whichever you have for setting up your
various variables and things when you login), put the following lines:
export EDITOR=joe
export VISUAL=$EDITOR
Replace "joe" with your editor of choice. The reason for putting both
lines above is that some programs use $EDITOR and some use $VISUAL to see
which editor you want. If you want to have a different "visual" editor in
place, then set $VISUAL to that editor. I always want the same editor no
matter which is being used by the program in question so I set them this
way.
--Dave
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