> > Then commands like visudo, vipw, svn commit, ... (list goes on) ... will > > use that editor by default. > > According to the sudo man page, visudo does not honor the EDITOR or VISUAL > environments from .bash_profile or .bashrc. It needs to be set explicitly as > the first line of /etc/sudoers.
Works for me. I use zile, which is hardly a popular editor. Looking at my man page, it says it honors that environment variable if the editor is in a predefined list. Maybe Debian has a predefined list based on installed editors. Not sure. tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
