Re: Elvis and crontab

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and 
>> I can't
>> make heads or tails out of it.
>>
>> Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet 
>> to a more
>> user friendly editor?
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know about Slackware specifically, but the usual way 
> applications get the identity of your editor is from an environment 
> variable called (duh) "EDITOR". Check your setting for this with the 
> "env" command. If you need to change it, do so in any convenient config 
> script (e.g., .bashrc) the usual way. User friendliness is, to a degree, 
> in the eye of the user, so I don't really know what you have in mind, 
> but a wide range of editors can work this way.
> 
> You might also want to check what "vi" on your system is a symlink to. I 
> seem to recall that Slackware, way back when (I probably quit using 
> Slackware 8 years ago, around the time of 4.0), used elvis as its stock 
> vi replacement. You can make any other vi-like app "your" vi simply by 
> changing this symlink. (I did this on my Debian systems, replacing the 
> annoying, at least to me, nvi with vim. The Debian setup is a bit more 
> involved than what I described here, so it is possible you will find 
> that Slack too has become more tangled than it once was, perhaps 
> requiring you to follow a string os symlinks instead of the single layer 
> I described.)

Slackware v9.1:

/usr/bin/ex -> elvis
"        vi -> elvis

and eleven other 'soft' links to 'vim'

;-)
Chuck

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