Editor Change

[Yabadoo]

Originally Posted by martinfst

When you are on the system as root (either by logging in directly or by 'su -' or similar), use the command

cd ~

. It will take you to the home dir of the effective user. Then

nano .bashrc

edit and you're done.

If you login as a regular user 1st and the 'upgrade' yourself, you can also edit the .bashrc file of the regular user. Environment variables are promoted to sub-shells.

Thanks Martin,

I had to change a little bit to get it working under opensuse 10.2

export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano

Log off and on and it works

[martinfst]

I had to change a little bit to get it working under opensuse 10.

export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano

Distribution peculiarities.