setting up your default editor

tarballed · 08-19-2003, 02:11 PM

Dont I feel foolish. I cannot recall on how to set your default editor to the one of your choosing.

Im not sure what happened, but vim was removed from my system. But I still have vi located in /bin/vi.

If I type vi <file> i get this:

Quote:

[root@corpmail root]# vi anaconda-ks.cfg
-bash: vim: command not found

I thought I add it right by typing the following:

export VISUAL=vi

But that did not work.

Can anyone tell me what im missing and how to set VI back to my default editor?

T.

AltF4 · 08-19-2003, 02:30 PM

probably there is an alias set up for "vi" (check with "type -p vi" if you are running bash as your shell)

try installing the 'vim' package or alias vi to some editor you have installed

darthtux · 08-19-2003, 02:30 PM

Try the full path
export VISUAL=/bin/vi