From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Elvis and crontab Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:52:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4249DC2B.40604@gelm.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20050328215440.02015c80@celine> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20050328215440.02015c80@celine> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs