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

Carlos E. R. wrote:


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?


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

That is always the prime suspect in these cases.

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 *


Thanks Carlos, I found it:

/etc/hxtools.conf:EDITOR="/usr/bin/joe";

$%$@#G%^ Jan! Why don't you use vi like a normal ultimate super-human kernel hacker???


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