Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote:
Hi,
In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and
I can't
make heads or tails out of it.
Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet
to a more
user friendly editor?
I don't know about Slackware specifically, but the usual way
applications get the identity of your editor is from an environment
variable called (duh) "EDITOR". Check your setting for this with the
"env" command. If you need to change it, do so in any convenient config
script (e.g., .bashrc) the usual way. User friendliness is, to a degree,
in the eye of the user, so I don't really know what you have in mind,
but a wide range of editors can work this way.
You might also want to check what "vi" on your system is a symlink to. I
seem to recall that Slackware, way back when (I probably quit using
Slackware 8 years ago, around the time of 4.0), used elvis as its stock
vi replacement. You can make any other vi-like app "your" vi simply by
changing this symlink. (I did this on my Debian systems, replacing the
annoying, at least to me, nvi with vim. The Debian setup is a bit more
involved than what I described here, so it is possible you will find
that Slack too has become more tangled than it once was, perhaps
requiring you to follow a string os symlinks instead of the single layer
I described.)
Slackware v9.1:
/usr/bin/ex -> elvis
" vi -> elvis
and eleven other 'soft' links to 'vim'
;-)
Chuck
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