Subject: Re: Changing default EDITOR
To: Matthew Theobalds <mtheobalds@mac.com>
From: SUNAGAWA Keiki <kei_sun@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/12/2001 09:41:27
Hi,

Matthew Theobalds <mtheobalds@mac.com> wrote:

Matthew> I am keen to change the default editor from vi to
Matthew> nano but for some reason cannot find any way to do
Matthew> it. Editing the .profile from EDITOR=vi to
Matthew> EDITOR=nano doesn't work; and I cannot find
Matthew> documentation anywhere else.

Did you have the line

export EDITOR

in your .profile as well?

Also, you should logout-then-login or read the file by
typing `. ~/.profile' after editing it.

--
SUNAGAWA Keiki <kei_sun@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>