How to set path for the EDITOR variable? - AIX

heprox · #1 06-06-2006

For some reason something has changing in my AIX environment where when I type:

ACLEDIT filename

...I get:

3002-104 acledit: EDITOR environment variable must be full pathname

I know I need to reset the EDITOR variables path to /usr/bin/vi but I can't remember the syntax anyone?

vino · #2 06-06-2006

On (ba)sh/ksh, you can use

Code:

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi

On csh it would be

Code:

setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi

heprox · #3 06-07-2006

Worked like a charm, I couldn't remember the command no matter what I did....

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