Re: $EDITOR

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:45:45PM -0500, Uncle Meat wrote:
| On 03-Oct-2000 demartino vittorio grtn it spoke something to the effect:
| > I use the command edquota to set the quota of a user. According to the
| > instructions edquota calls the editor vi (which I don't like) by default
| > unless another editor is specified in the $EDITOR variable.
| > In what file can I find that variable in order to modify it in pico
| > instead
| > of vi?
| 
| Sytem-wide, /etc/profile is the place.

Hell NO!!

This is a _personal_ setting. Put it in your personal .profile (or root's
since you're root at the time).

Cheers,
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