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From: rrobinson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Randall W. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .mailrc
Message-ID: <10371@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 Jun 88 14:28:13 GMT
References: <4097@fluke.COM>
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Organization: NASA - Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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in article <4097@fluke.COM>, strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) says:
> 
> I would like to put something in my .mailrc file, so that I will automatically
> be in the vi editor when I invoke the mail program.  Currently, I have to type
> ~v every time.  Is there a way to do this?
> -- 
> 
> Norm   (strong@tc.fluke.com)

Try putting a  'setenv EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi' (or whatever the path
is) in your .login.  This should do it.

Randy

rrobinson@ames.arc.nasa.gov