Re: [sheflug] Changine editors?

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sammy wrote:

> Dose anyone know how to set /etc/profile up with an specific text editor in my
> case emacs instead of vi as idon't know how to use it yet. Will learn to use it
> (later rather than sooner) :( So that crontab -e will bring up emacs instead of
> vi. I tried adding  EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
>                          EDITOR:  export USERNAME ENV PATH EDITOR
>
> It say does not reconise EDITOR :: command not found
> can you guys help me

What's the entire content of the profile?  If that line above is verbatim,
it's wrong; it shouldn't have the "EDITOR: " there.

Cheers

Richard

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