01.01.2014 15:09, Andreas Rönnquist: > On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:59:24 -0500, > Paul Cartwright<pbcartwri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ok, so I have a wheezy setup. When I do a crontab -e to EDIT my >> crontab, it brings up a nano session. I'm a VI kind guy, how do I >> change that so VI comes up?? >> > > It gets the editor from the EDITOR environment variable - to change to > vi, do something like > > export EDITOR=vi > > - too keep this you can for example do it in your .bashrc.
... and if you rather want to change the system default, do update-alternatives --config editor as root. P.S.: Sorry Andeas for the PM. Shouldn't have happened, but the brain controlling my fingers seems to be still stuck in 2013... -- Regards mks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52c4322b.6010...@list-post.mks-mail.de
