Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Steven Stern wrote: >> >>> vi /etc/group >>> >>> >> While it probably doesn't make any difference on a single user >> system, you should get in the habit of using vigr instead of vi for >> editing the group file, and vipw for editing the passwd file. This >> helps insures that only one program at a time modifies the files. >> Also, if you have set EDITOR, they will use the editor of your choice. >> >> Mikkel >> > I use joe because I learned Wordstar years ago and it is thus simple. > And vi and all the variations are hard for me to remember. So can I set > joe as my EDITOR? Sounds like a bash call... bash is interested in /etc/bashrc for all users and ~/.bashrc for a particular user when it starts up. You can stick export EDITOR=vi or whatever in either. -Andy
