On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:57:41 -0500, beartooth wrote:
[....]On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:42:31 -0500, Jurvis LaSalle wrote:
[....]set the EDITOR environment variable to reflect your favorite editor. for bash: export EDITOR=nano(it would probably be wise to put this in your .bashrc or .tcshrc)
You're saying to do "nano .bashrc" insert the line "export EDITOR=nano"
into it somewhere, and save it?
yes, 'nano ~/.bashrc' and add the 'export EDITOR=nano' line. then execute 'source ~/.bashrc'
to update your current shell to reflect the new changes. This shell and all new shells you
open will now have the EDITOR environment variable set (test it with 'echo $EDITOR'). Many
programs will honor this and use nano (like vipw and visudo - just because they explicitly
reference using vi, they will still work with whichever $EDITOR you specify).
Now just run visudo as root and add the line that I suggested way back before we took this
informative tangent.
hth, JL
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