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Re: What is the Darwin/Unix Equivalent of the DOS Path Statement?

Subject: Re: What is the Darwin/Unix Equivalent of the DOS Path Statement?
From: Nicholas Shanks <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:01:08 +0100
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Christoph Gerdes said:

>> What file do I edit to assign pico as my default editor instead of vi?
>
> You don't want to do that! pico is crap!

leave the poor new guy alone. pico is the only editor that is modeless.

> You have to set the $EDITOR variable similar to the $PATH variable.

alternatively, some utilities use the $VISUAL variable (eg crontab -e)
set it using 'setenv VISUAL pico' if you're using the (t)csh

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