system wide default editor

Jay Daniels tux at myt60.net
Wed Sep 2 21:19:49 UTC 2009


When I create a cron job with crontab -e, a pico looking ( nano whatever
name ) pops up as my editor.

How do I change the default editor in Ubuntu Hardy to vi or emacs -nw.

Why in the world would anyone want to use this 1st grade dos looking
text editor if they installed Linux?



jay





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