On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, chuck gelm wrote: > 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
Hmm.. That's weird, only 2 links to elvis ?.. According to google there should be 8,340,000 'soft' links to elvis. Are you sure, you installed slack correctly ? ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
