Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:03:15 +0000 From: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: editor for vipw Message-ID: <5060100023353721000002L012*@MHS>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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