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12-26-2004

Tony Empire Tony Empire is offline

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Changing default editor

Redhat 9

I want to change my default text editor from vi to pico.
When I look in the .bash_profile or .bashrc I do not see the EDITOR variable. So how do I change the default permanently?

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