Defining EDITOR Variable - Tru64

Bagel08 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

Hi,

I have to edit a lot of partitions soon and wanted to do so with EMACS rather than VI.

The "disklabel -e -r disknumber" command picks up VI as it's defined, but how do I set "-e" so it uses EMACS instead please?

Thanks...!

vbe · #2 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs;export EDITOR (but is it installed there? you should have xemacs...)

Bagel08 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008

Hi,

The OS isn't installed yet, but looking on our test box we have a /usr/bin/emacs so it should come across when we install the OS if we use the same cd.

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