Re: [opensuse] help! How did EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe get set and how do I get vi back -- permanently?

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The Thursday 2008-07-31 at 01:37 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:

Listmates,

Gremlins in my 10.3 server again. I went to edit a crontab and to my surprise, a blue screen editor appeared and I had no idea how to get out of it so I just hit ctrl+c to exit. Further investigation revealed that "joe" was now my default editor? joe who?

[00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR
EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe
[00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
[00:57 nirvana/var/backup] # set | grep EDITOR
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
_=EDITOR

Okay... :-)


Now I have an additional piece of environment set to "_=EDITOR". I killed it with "unset _".

Forget it, that's just the last command you run.


More troubling is how did "EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe" get set in the first place? This is a basic 10.3 server (Linux nirvana 2.6.22.18-0.2-default). I like vi, I wouldn't change it.

I would look at the chair keyboard-interface(s) for a culprit :-p

More frustrating, this seems to be set every time I open a new shell. I exit a shell, su to reopen another, and the thing is set to joe again. Where do I fix this for good? Thanks.



Just:

grep EDITOR *

and undo the changed file; should be .bashrc or .profile.


If not there, did you per chance "su" to root, without "-"? Then look at the settings for the user.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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