On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 04:24:39PM +0100, G??bri M??t?? wrote:
| > If you prefer vi and want to use it for most everything, simply export
| > VISUAL=vi. This has the same effect as set -o vi on your command line
| > editor.
|
| What does it do if i set this variable?
According to the ksh manpage, this sets command-line editing mode for
interactive shells and overrides the EDITOR variable (the last part
means that anything that uses an editor (eg. crontab -e) will (or,
should) start ${VISUAL}.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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