From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Dec 14 00:19:47 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2648CA14CD9 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net) Received: from brightstar.bomgardner.net (brightstar.bomgardner.net [63.229.207.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0575D122E for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net) Received: from brightstar.bomgardner.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brightstar.bomgardner.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAEE3BE; Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:19:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Gene" To: Anton Sayetsky Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: freebsd-update editor choice Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:19:44 -0600 Message-Id: <20151214001912.M44704@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20151213182848.M69104@brightstar.bomgardner.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.53 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.0.17 (fbsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:19:47 -0000 On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 20:42:30 +0200, Anton Sayetsky wrote > 13 дек. 2015 г. 20:39 пользователь "Gene" написал: > > > > > > Hi - > > > > I'm using freebsd-update to update my 10.1 system to 10.2. When merging files, > > it insists on using the 'vi' editor. I really, really, REALLY, despise vi. Is > > there a way to get it to use another editor? > I hope that you don't want to use some editor for noobs, like ee. Solution to your problem is setting EDITOR environment variable. -- Could have sworn I did that... oops! Thanks By the way - back in the day (70's - 80's) I got really good with Wordstar. So today I kind of like Joe.