Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:17:24AM +, Curt wrote: On 2014-01-02, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: man select-editor man select-editor No manual entry for select-editor I think you need to install 'sensible-utils', which

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/05/2014 03:37 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Choose 1-7 []: 6 $ dpkg -S select-editor sensible-utils: /usr/bin/select-editor sensible-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/select-editor.1.gz As I see its changelog, it is only in testing/sid: so, it isn't in wheezy .. that's what I figured out:) #

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-02, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: man select-editor man select-editor No manual entry for select-editor I think you need to install 'sensible-utils', which provides /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/bin/sensible-editor

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: Also perhaps: aptitude purge nano :-) Richard thanks, I might do that also, since I use either VI or gedit.. You do know about gvim right?

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/02/2014 07:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, "Paul Cartwright" pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: Also perhaps: aptitude purge nano :-)

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread shawn wilson
No idea. I compile vim on Debian for ruby support (command-t). Probably vim-gtk. So I'm putting this back on the list. On Jan 2, 2014 7:19 AM, Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/2014 07:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: On Jan 1, 2014 7:43 PM, Paul Cartwright

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/02/2014 07:25 AM, shawn wilson wrote: No idea. I compile vim on Debian for ruby support (command-t). Probably vim-gtk. So I'm putting this back on the list. On Jan 2, 2014 7:19 AM, "Paul Cartwright" pbcartwri...@gmail.com

nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so VI comes up?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, Paul Cartwrightpbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so VI comes up?? It gets the editor from the EDITOR environment variable

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Carson Chittom
Paul Cartwright pbcartwri...@gmail.com writes: ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so VI comes up?? Most generally, you should set the environmental variable EDITOR to be your favorite

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Markus Schönhaber
01.01.2014 15:09, Andreas Rönnquist: On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, Paul Cartwrightpbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I change that so VI comes up?? It gets

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 10:20 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: ... and if you rather want to change the system default, do update-alternatives --config editor as root. P.S.: Sorry Andeas for the PM. Shouldn't have happened, but the brain controlling my fingers seems to be still stuck in 2013... thank

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Richard Hector
On 02/01/14 04:20, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 01.01.2014 15:09, Andreas Rönnquist: On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, Paul Cartwrightpbcartwri...@gmail.com wrote: ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 07:00 PM, Richard Hector wrote: Also perhaps: aptitude purge nano :-) Richard thanks, I might do that also, since I use either VI or gedit.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread John Hasler
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Re: nano vs VI

2014-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 01/01/2014 08:01 PM, John Hasler wrote: man select-editor man select-editor No manual entry for select-editor that's OK, I already did the .bashrc EDITOR=vi -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to