Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 01:30:06 -0400 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re[2]: help! Message-ID: <1762.000403@home.com> In-Reply-To: <38E8070F.10B8BAD7@raccoon.com> References: <38E8070F.10B8BAD7@raccoon.com>
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Just out of curiosity why are all the examples I ever see re setting environment variables in bash listed as: VARNAME=value; export VARNAME instead of: export VARNAME=value ? --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com Quoting John Lengeling Monday, April 03, 2000 JL> If you just want to change your default editor, it depends on which JL> shell you are using. If you are using csh edit your .login file and JL> look for the line: JL> SETENV EDITOR vi JL> If you are using bourne shell, edit your .profile and look for: JL> EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR JL> When you create a new login on the system, the default shell startup JL> config files are copied from /usr/share/skel into the new user's home JL> directory. If you want to fix it for every new user created, then edit JL> the files in that directory. JL> johnl JL> outlawtx@bga.com wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> How do I change the default text editor? >> >> Don James >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message JL> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org JL> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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