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From: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com>
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Subject: editor for vipw
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Hi,

i've had problem adding test users to master.passwd, and it's because i've been
accessing this file directly through emacs, since vipw uses the vi editor by
default.
Now if i want to get vipw to use the emacs editor by default then presumably I
change the EDITOR env. variable to emacs, like so:

 EDITOR=emacs export EDITOR

right?

I usually do this on the command line and it works ... usually ... i think!

i've tried adding this command to one of the shell startup files and when i
reboot vipw resorts to using vi. ahh, also when i echo $EDITOR it returns
"/bin/bash/ee". what is this? is ee an editor.

thanx,

ghulam

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