Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:46:10 -0000 From: "Steven Fletcher (Shellnet IRC administrator)" <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: EDQUOTA and selected editor. Message-ID: <9801171446071200@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk>
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I commonly use joe (Joe's Own Editor) as my default editor, and I have set
the EDITOR variable to be joe.
Therefore, most applications that call on a text editors will usually run
joe, or if the variable is not set, vi. I am trying to run EDQUOTA on my
system, with resonable success - however, vi is a problem for me - I have
limited experience with it and I would much prefer to use joe.
However, running edquota, with EDITOR=joe (proved by echo $EDITOR), it
always uses vi as the editor ..... after the man pages tell me that:
The editor invoked is vi(1) unless the environment variable EDITOR
specifies otherwise.
But - even if joe is set as the editor, edquota always runs vi !
Is this a bug in the system or am I doing something wrong ?
I would appreciate any help here
Thanks
Steven Fletcher
Shellnet IRC and Quake server admin
ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk / steven@shellnet.co.uk
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