please help me with a simple question guys... How do i set vi editor to use in hugs permanently? I'm using ubuntu 7.10 and installed hugs98 from Adept Manager. i don't know the directories or paths of my installed hugs98. Thank you.

New to me, but I take it that you mean how to get this permanent:

I don't have the faintest idea of what hugs98 is, so I'll present only one possible solution here. If there is a configuration file to that program, and it allows you to set a default editor, you should do that (maybe /etc/hugs.conf or something? no?) However you have other options. You could use either alias (alias the command so that when you run hugs98, you actually run hugs98 -E"vi +%d %s") or set your editor variable to point to vi(m) instead of whatever it is pointing at.

For changing the editor variable, you can do a search here.

For the alias, you could run
Not sure if the quotes inside quotes make life difficult, but I'm hoping that if you first use ' ' quotes and " " inside them, it's ok. Play around if it's not working. The alias should only be in use "for now", so when you reboot don't expect it to be there. Instead you can add that line to your .bash_profile or something, so it's run every time you run bash. Then when you run 'hugs98', the aliased command is actually run..

thank you b0uncer. i like the line (alias hugs98='hugs98 -E"vi +%d %s"') of yours. it works with hugs