On Saturday 24 November 2007 14:33, Karl Larsen wrote: > 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... I edited ~/.bash_profile to make nano my default editor by adding the line export EDITOR=nano Just change the nano for joe Nigel.
