On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, John S. wrote:

> Sorry for this newbie question.. :)
> I want to set pico as my editor; I have read that I need to set the 
> EDITOR to pico.. but which file I change isnt mentioned. (I.e in the vipw 
> man pages it is mentioned). Thanks for all the help. I am up to july 1996 
> in the port-mac68 mailing list archives.. what a tremendous education. 

I _hope_ there's a file in /etc called profile (although interestingly,
there's not one in MkLinux).  If not, there should be one with a similar
name in the root account's home directory (usually /root or /home/root or
under some shells, ~root will work).  Add the lines

EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/pico"
export EDITOR

to that file, substituting in the correct path.

Hope that helps,

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