application prefered

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 22:48:16 BST 2008


Hi,

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, mario salcedo wrote:

> Hi, anybody know how I can change the text editor prefered. I prefer to
> use vim but when I use visudo, this open vi.

Make sure vim is actually installed and put:

	export EDITOR=vim

into .bashrc in your home directory.  Next time you run bash, it should be
there for you.  If you want to try it in your current shell, just run the
above command in that shell.

Gavin




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