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From: dblack@pilot.njin.net (David Alan Black)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: setting variable on Bourne-shell startup
Keywords: shell variable
Message-ID: <Sep.10.22.17.05.1990.924@pilot.njin.net>
Date: 11 Sep 90 02:17:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J.
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Based on what I've read in TFM, I've tried to use ".profile" to create
and export an EDITOR variable (namely, vi - my main purpose here is to
circumvent emacs).

Simply put, I can't get it to work.  Even when .profile says:

EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR

and I say

%sh

I end up in the Bourne shell (which is good) with EDITOR pointing at emacs
(which isn't good).

Eventually, I would like to put a "sh" in .login so as to bypass the C-shell.
But I don't want to have to change EDITOR manually every time.

With thanks for any responses,


David Black
dblack@pilot.njin.net


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