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From: compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Editing within mail under AIX 3.1 (RS6000)
Message-ID: <32328@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Aug 90 07:32:51 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Yesterday I wrote:
"A small problem with mail on AIX 3.1.  InfoExplorer and the man page both
"say (and tradition holds) that ~v while composing a message puts you in vi
"while ~e puts you in ed.  On the system I'm using (9021), ~e puts you in
"INed and ~v gives an error message about a non-existent file or directory.
"What gives?

Two persons [gs26@prism.gatech.edu (Glenn R. Stone) and woan@peyote.cactus.org
(Ronald S. Woan)] responded, asking if I had properly set the VISUAL or
EDITOR environment variables.  Yes, I have set VISUAL=vi without any effect
on the problem.  I then set EDITOR=vi and ~e gets me into vi.  But nothing
I have tried makes ~v get me anywhere!

Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas
compata@cup.portal.com
compata@mcimail.com