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09-12-2008

amaltemara amaltemara is offline

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check VISUAL env variable

I had the same problem, check and see if the VISUAL env. variable is set to something other than vi.

Code:

set | grep VISUAL

If so, then that's overriding the EDITOR variable.

Many ways to fix...

Add to your ~/.bash_profile (or /etc/profile, or /etc/profile.d/SOME_FILE)

Code:

export VISUAL=vi