* David Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020108 18:42]: > On 2002.01.08, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Nick Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sounds fine to me Sam, I don't know what VISUAL is though? > > I presume it's a config var, I'll go look it up on the manual. > > Is that why I sometimes see headers with X-editor: Vim? > > > > How will other apps know what I prefer if this is a mutt thing? > > To add a little to this: EDITOR and VISUAL are common environment > variables, and are not particular to any program, application, or suite. > They're just traditional variables for specifying your preferred editor > in. Traditionally, EDITOR should specify a line editor, and VISUAL > should specify a full-screen editor. Not many people use ed, ex, and the > line anymore, though, so it's common to use them interchangeably for > full-screen or graphical editors now. > > A common Bourne shell idiom is this: > editor=${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vi}} > ... > ${editor} ${filename} > > which illustrates the relationship: first use $VISUAL if it is defined, > because a full-screen editor is usually preferred; then use $EDITOR if > $VISUAL is not defined or is empty. If neither is set, fall back on vi, > because one can almost always rely on its being present even when other > screen editors are not. > > But many programs refer to these variables for your editor preferences, > so if you pretty much always want the same editor, it's promising to set > $VISUAL and $EDITOR to your favorite.
And the simple way would be.... export VISUAL=vi export EDITOR=vi I guess? -- Nick Wilson Tel: +45 3325 0688 Fax: +45 3325 0677 Web: www.explodingnet.com
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