Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:15:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dbrockus@cyberhall.com (David Brockus) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EDITOR environment variable Message-ID: <199510120145.LAA15615@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951011105134.22511A-100000@cyber1.cyberhall.com> from "David Brockus" at Oct 11, 95 10:58:40 am
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David Brockus stands accused of saying: > > I am running FreeBSD 2.0.5. I am trying to set pico as the default > editor for the vipw command. Pico is in the path and can be executed > from the shell prompt. > > I have the following lines in the root users .profile > > EDITOR=pico > export EDITOR > > This does not work. Could someone tell my the correct syntax and file to > edit to add environment variables to FreeBSD. Unless you have changed something, root's shell is csh. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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